This feels right in terms how I experience things when I've had bad migraines and notice parts of my capability going away temporarily such as understanding speech or being able to read words or missing visual areas entirely. Things get jumbled or confused, all the while, I am aware of these things happening yet unable to control them. It feels like there are separate parts of me like modules that go offline but the one that is constant is the sense of "me" or the consciousness part. These episodes are few and far between but I am still thankful to have a different perspective of our bio-mechanical nature. It also makes me feel closer to my pets in the sense that awareness or consciousness doesn't correlate with cognitive ability or intellect but that is just my guess.
relating to this...it makes me very curious about Neuralink or similar tech impact on humanity once that becomes more advanced. If it is true we have these specialized processing areas while our awareness is another specialized area, it would follow that all sorts of capabilities the new tech brings would simply be incorporated and assumed just as we assume our ability to remember a name or add numbers in our head. It will be a crazy future that I hope to see.
