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by nonrandomstring 1417 days ago
What you're describing fits well with the description of declarative versus imperative knowledge [1], the subject of a recent thread here. Perhaps your experience suggests they are encoded by different neurological structures! I hope you continue to recover.

[1] example: knowing what a square root is, and all the common roots, but not knowing Newtons method or any trick for finding them.