Review: Seeing with a lizard brain.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 29, 2012
I found this a remarkable single.  The story of Lewis who has come from catastrophic brain damage to a new reality is compelling and novel.  I expected a miracle of recovery story, but as the author notes, "this is because we have seen too many soap operas.". This is not recovery, this is almost a new human.Due to massive brain damage, the conscious routes of perceiving are gone.  Now sight and cognition are routed through the primitive structuresnofnthe brain, the lizard brain.  He had blindsight, he couldn't see " but he could see through those blind spots, albeit without being quite aware of doing so.". He lived in flat time in which multiple states exist in the same time.  Our higher functions usually screen this, but his subconscious brain enabled to live his life all at once, all the time.He isn't heroic, and doesn't think that he is.  He has no closure, and finds the idea ridiculous as an expectation of the suffering.  I find the whole story fascinating and thoroughly enjoyed this short.  Well worth the time.