1996 On December 10, 37, Harvard University brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor suffered a rare left brain stroke.
She uses the professional and curious eyes of brain scientists to observe and feel how her brain loses information processing ability bit by bit, and finally is so serious that she cannot walk, talk, read, write, and even remember her past... She strives to get help before she completely loses consciousness. The process lasted for 4 hours and she miraculously recovered completely in 8 years.
stroke gives Taylor the opportunity to study how the brain creates so-called reality and perception, becoming her internal observation of cognitive disintegration.
I am no longer the commander-in-chief of this life. In the absence of vision, hearing, touch, smell, taste and fear, I feel that my soul is no longer combined with this body, and I am finally freed from pain.
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I am still here - I am still me, but I no longer have the rich emotional and cognitive relationships that I have been familiar with in my life before, so am I really me?
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On these special days, I learned the meaning of just "just living". Just living, living here, no past, no future, just living purely, regaining a new life, leaving behind everything in the past.
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At the end of this book, Taylor said:
The mental health of our society is established by the mental health of the brain that makes up our society. I must admit that Western civilization is a pretty challenging environment for my right-brain character full of love and peace. Obviously, it’s not the only one who feels like this, because I see millions of people in society choose to escapist our reality by using illegal drugs and alcohol to self-treat. "
In addition to the value of academic research, this book has strong guiding and reference value for entering the inner world of stroke patients and helping them to actively recover.
Due to her contribution to stroke research, she was selected as one of the top 100 influential figures in the world of Time magazine in the United States in 2008.
She has her own website and has given a speech on Ted. If you want to learn more about her legendary experience, just search for her name.
