I’m finding this fascinating. Along the lines of the damaged radio idea, I am reminded of when my mother was recovering from a stroke. She went through a weeks-long phase where her brain was so damaged that she could not speak, and couldn’t recognize her family - and yet, if we would sing a song she knew, she could sing it with us word for word. Her brain, that rational thing that we think is all of a person, was damaged - but her soul, her consciousness, was there underneath waiting for the brain to recover.
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"When a radio becomes damaged, it may no longer pick up a signal. But that doesn’t mean the signal itself is gone."
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I’m finding this fascinating. Along the lines of the damaged radio idea, I am reminded of when my mother was recovering from a stroke. She went through a weeks-long phase where her brain was so damaged that she could not speak, and couldn’t recognize her family - and yet, if we would sing a song she knew, she could sing it with us word for word. Her brain, that rational thing that we think is all of a person, was damaged - but her soul, her consciousness, was there underneath waiting for the brain to recover.