Fascinating case of a man who had an infarct in (unsurprisingly) his left occipital lobe, and now can speak fluently with abstract concepts, but not with image-able words. Blogged by Neuroskeptic; here's the original paper.
"...there is good and bad speculation, and this is not an unparalleled activity in science...Those scientists who have no taste for this sort of speculative enterprise will just have to stay in the trenches and do without it, while the rest of us risk embarrassing mistakes and have a lot of fun." - Dan Dennett
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