I can feel it in my waters

July 22, 2007 7:44 AM

To be a fonctionnaire doesn't actually require a brain. A French civil servant has been found to have a huge cavity filled with fluid in his head -- yet lives a completely normal life.
Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
posted by strawberryviagra (7 comments total)

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posted by strawberryviagra at 7:49 AM on July 22, 2007

yet lives a completely normal life

Imagine having a normal brain and finding that job hard !
posted by elpapacito at 7:53 AM on July 22, 2007

I remember some documentary on the BBC showing a PhD mathematician with a similar affliction; a 1 cm layer of brain around huge ventricles.
posted by jouke at 7:59 AM on July 22, 2007

I think - from what I have read about the brain - how you use, train and rewire your grey matter.
posted by homodigitalis at 8:14 AM on July 22, 2007

Here there be badgers?
posted by kittens for breakfast at 8:16 AM on July 22, 2007

Having worked in civil service in the US, I can confirm that there are many jobs available which not only don't require a brain but for which having one might be seen as an impediment.
posted by empath at 8:30 AM on July 22, 2007

lol civilservants
posted by jourman2 at 8:34 AM on July 22, 2007