The real person is the soul, and the brain is merely a tool. Of course, it is a very good and useful tool. But it is not the source of consciousness. You are proof of that. People are not meat machines; our real identity is eternal soul, just inhabiting the bodies...for a while.
A wonderful story, thank you for telling it.
My so-called “expert neurologist” got so angry with me, afterward, that he forcefully ejected me and my mother from his office with orders to never return.
It seems, you see, that I was technically/statistically/medically/logically “not able” to pass all of the cognitive tests he gave me.
Nor should I have been able to blindfold-taste even the slightest difference between things he had me sample, given that I no longer had ~any~ sense of smell.
I screwed up his curve, wrecked his paradigm and altered his comfy "reality" so much that he didn't like it one little bit.
[you'd have thought they'd want to study me and find out *why* everything was “working”, instead]
I have absolutely no idea what part of my brain [or *whatever*] is “taking up the slack”.
I'm simply thrilled that is...:)
And you're very welcome.
It's not an easy story to tell but occasionally, it helps somebody to cope with their own brain injuries.