Thursday, October 02, 2003
But if he had no brain, where was his mind?
This story in the Guardian makes my head hurt.
"There's a young student at this university," neurologist Professor John Lorber of Sheffield University told Science magazine in December 1980, "who has an IQ of 126, has gained a first-class honours degree in mathematics, and is socially completely normal. And yet the boy has virtually no brain."
It sounds too mad to be true.
"A scan revealed that the student had only 1mm of brain tissue lining the inside of his skull - fluid filled the area where the rest of his brain should have been. "
Maybe this is why I keep bumping into things?
This story in the Guardian makes my head hurt.
"There's a young student at this university," neurologist Professor John Lorber of Sheffield University told Science magazine in December 1980, "who has an IQ of 126, has gained a first-class honours degree in mathematics, and is socially completely normal. And yet the boy has virtually no brain."
It sounds too mad to be true.
"A scan revealed that the student had only 1mm of brain tissue lining the inside of his skull - fluid filled the area where the rest of his brain should have been. "
Maybe this is why I keep bumping into things?
