The answer to the question, offered in this Scientific American article, is no. If you think about it, "Losing far less than 90 percent of the brain to accident or disease has catastrophic consequences." There is a great deal of myth surrounding how the brain functions. Much of that myth is offered in papers like this one, offered by a reader on the trdev mailing list as a follow-up to the previous link. This latter paper should not be taken seriously; it contains numerous scientific and conceptual errors. It would help if we knew more about how the brain works, but we know a great deal now, and it would help more if this knowledge were reflected in common consciousness, not obscured by fable.
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