My dear son has been making fun of me – I’m sure
because of his mother – by telling me that I’m certainly not smarter than I was
before the injury, but I do beg to differ mostly for the reason that when you
almost die - as my NDE confirms and proves – the brain isn’t taking care of the
“functioning” of the entire body (all the internal organs, sight, breathing, heart beating with blood
circulation etc.… etc.…) so the mind with the intelligence and logic are more independent to operate
using their capacities.
Many researchers call this fact “universal
intelligence” and my friend Iacopo calls it “cumulative intelligence” I posted
it here before that I’d rather call it “freed intelligence” in the sense that,
the part of the brain dedicated to intelligence isn’t “restricted” by the rest
of the activities that the rest of the brain must perform to allow the body to
function (live).
Given that having any disagreement with my dear
son – who represent the immortality of mine and of our last name – drives me to
research how far am I from my beliefs, I google researched this very topic and –
much to my pleasure and surprise I found what the websites linked below attest,
or that my thinking, logic and intelligence truly increased as a result of my
brain injury.
While I already “scientifically and
specifically” explained the reason why the parts of the brain involved in these
capacities become stronger (especially in my case where the motor cortex area is the only damaged brain
area) I found
myself smiling when I read of those who became savants after their brain injury
or were able to do things very far and different from both what they were doing
before or were even interested in.
Could it be that my contempt about
neuropsychological assessments and the neuropsychologists (who give them and believe
in them) is in some
way related to my newly acquired “universal intelligence”? Intelligence that
is, was and will always be greatly superior to that of those Ph.D.’s in neuropsy?
- https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/05/eureka-when-a-blow-to-the-head-creates-a-sudden-genius/257282/
- https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-02/when-brain-damage-unlocks-genius-within
- https://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-people-become-very-smart-after-a-head-trauma
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