I have to work my brain so hard when I read and write that I wonder, if i were to ever get well, then I will find that I have a newly-formed natural super-intelligence, because my brain will have re-routed itself so many times! (I live in hope anyway!)
Hi Bob, I am convinced that your natural super-intelligence theory is right; well, as convinced as I am of any hypothesis on these forums. I am repeating myself here, but I think its worth doing. Several times I have had spontaneous remissions of ME or CFS symptoms for some hours; almost all were when I was on immunocal and a bunch of other antioxidants and vitamins.
On one occasion my reading speed when from "A ... cat ... sat ... on ... the ... mat ...) to "Ok, Aachen ... Zyranovsk ... ok thats that dictionary read." Seriously, my reading speed went from 200wpm to 50 pages per minute. Thats fast.
On another occasion I could do math in my head faster than on my calculator ... oh, and I solved all those horrible physical chemistry equation problems that were bothering me at uni, and I had spent hours doing similar problems, and it only took a couple of minutes. On that same day I could look at equations and
see the graph, and induce implications, in just a second. Serious math skills.
When the brain doesn't function, it drives to make new connections. Our brains function badly and slow, so we make many more connections just to function. When we can remove the brake, I expect to see most of us become very very much smarter (ok, ok, big part wishful thinking here ;-).
I had an AI professor who joked that as we lose brain cells we compensate by making more connections. His joke was that as alcohol kills brain cells, it was our duty to drink heavily, kill all brain cells but one - as we kill more and more, the brain will make more and more connections. This final cell would be infinitely connected to itself and we would become God. OK, that is a philosophers joke: philosophers and mathematicians are very strange people.
Seriously though, we don't know what is irreversible and what isn't. One thing I do hope though is that if we all become geniuses we devote some of that new mental capacity to finding even better solutions to ME and CFS.
Bye
Alex