What’s the Sound of Personhood? - Issue 6: Secret Codes
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Thomas’ parents had not been sure, since his brain injury, if he recognized them or even sensed their presence. Lying in a hospital bed he looked like a typical 12-year-old boy. If it weren’t for the constellation of cables hooked up to various large machines, it’d be easy to imagine him napping on a weekend afternoon after roughhousing with the neighborhood kids. Only Thomas didn’t move, and hadn’t for two years. He suffered from a brain injury that left him profoundly disabled. He was (...)