[hegemonicon]

What I find irritating is that a neuroscientist would be so easily drawn into mysterious, magical thinking about what was going on in her head.

Of course, I suppose I might see things differently if a blood clot turned half of my brain off for a while.

[andrewl]

It seems likely that most people would see things differently were they to have her experience. I like the talk, but I understand why some people do not. But I would not say she was "so easily" drawn into mysterious or magical thinking. She was drawn into it by a massive, life-changing medical event that attacked and damaged the organ which creates her mind. I think she's using the only words, metaphors, and ideas she has available to describe what is probably indescribable at base.