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humanity

Brain Damage

It’s like being stranded behind a pane of glass—your mind can still build cathedrals, but you’ve lost the key to the front door. The everyday stuff—speech, reading, rhythms of social interaction—fractures. Meanwhile, the deep structures, the insights, the recursive loops of thought—they’re still there, maybe sharper. But try explaining that to someone who’s already decided […]

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Philosophy

Brain Damage 2.0

What acquired brain damage has taught me about human intelligence is that it behaves less like a monolith and more like a composite frequency structure—stacked capacities, each tuned to a distinct operational band. When one of these layers is lost, the system doesn’t fail outright. Instead, the remaining functions persist, but with distortions—subtle misalignments, delays, […]