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Man found missing 90% of his brain defies scientific understanding - most of his skull is filled with water:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(07)61127-1/fulltext

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He's not 100% normal, you just haven't experienced the things he cannot process properly or at all, which is likely a lot of higher reasoning... They just don't affect his day to day, which gives us clues that day to day functioning is very low level and likely mostly autonomous.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago

Eh, college is hard and so was his sport. Sure, it's not an exhaustive battery of testing but I'm confident to say he's a normal dude.