I find this fascinating. Without a degree in neurology, I like to imagine what is roughly happening in a coder fashion. 1. RFS (the person with the condition)

I find this fascinating. Without a degree in neurology, I like to imagine what is roughly happening in a coder fashion. 1. RFS (the person with the condition) perceives a digit, 8 for instance. Touching or seeing doesn't matter (article says nothing about hearing). Perception works fine, meaning that the input feed is still working. 2. Something in RFS brain inserts the perceived shape information into some sort of hash function, where the result is then used as key for an index map. The resulting value is the position of the neurons associated with the digit 8. 3. The neurons encoding 8 are still there, but their storage is corrupted (do we know how the brain / neurons store information?). Dutifully, those neurons forward the corrupted data to the mental processing unit. 4. The mental processing unit receives the corrupted data, runs an interpreter, tries to integrate the data with its conscious reality construct and comes to the following conclusion: This is some form of spaghetti. The spaghetti is never the same, as it's always influenced by the conscious reality construct. If those neurons would have been destroyed, RFS might have relearned those digits. But as the neurons remain, their data stays and can't be updated. Although I still wonder, why exactly they can't be updated and how updating normally works. Maybe the data corruption makes the normal update process physically impossible. Or RFS brain doesn't register the corrupted data as faulty. Anyway, does anyone know more about this case or the neurology behind it?