[cgk]

The final quote of the article says it all:

''He was pushing us to go to a higher level,'' Fins said. ''He's aware of himself, he's happy, but it took a lot of skill to see it. If he ended up in a nursing home and started doing things like this, no one would have noticed.''

[KosmicKitty]

Over 20 years ago, I had a duel college major of Biology & Psychology with a focus on the human brain & the chemical aspect of the brain & behavior. While I ended up changing majors a few scant bio classes short of graduating in this field, the one thing that I learned was just how LITTLE is known about the human brain. There is NO way we can have any knowledge of what happens when someone enters a state like that which Terri is in. Heck, we don't even know everything that's going on inside our heads!