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It is a part of an excellent book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Mistook_His_Wife_f... which is recommended for anyone who is interested in how the brains work.

Interestingly enough, the article above links to Blindsight book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel) which is also excellent and discusses somewhat related topics, though in a fictional setting.

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The book is one of my biggest trauma from my childhood. My mother was studying psychology and it was one of the books that most changed his view on the topic, and I was interested.

Reading it, though cannot remember all of it, really gave me the feeling of how fragile such a complex system can be and how incredible are its recovering abilities.

The “man who mistook his wife for a hat” is just one of the cases analyzed.

For anyone looking for a great hard-scifi read Blindsight and it's sequel Echopraxia are actually brilliant reads.

Available for free (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5) here: http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm

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I'm reading Blindsight now, and love it. For many years in one of my careers, I was a synthesist. But the term never occurred to me. Would have been good marketing. So it goes.

Finnished the book Blindsight four days ago. Fascinating read.

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