What we learn about the brain when it breaks

By way of Reality Sandwich and reader JY we learn of this video from Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroanatomist who suffered a massive stroke and then studied the malfunctions of her own brain as it went kablooey. People don't like to believe our sense of subject self, our "consciousness", is actually the byproduct of a very small number of neural complexes constantly keeping reality ordered for us, but when communication between these complexes becomes decoupled due to injury, degradation, or intervention, what we sense as the self and reality becomes entirely unraveled. Sound familiar ego-deathers?