@MercurialBuilding @hidden You can actually live a normal life with your brain compressed to a tiny fraction of its original volume, exactly like the Homer small brain meme:

"A man with an unusually tiny brain manages to live an entirely normal life despite his condition, which was caused by a fluid build-up in his skull."

And, yes, I am speaking from personal experience.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12301-man-with-tiny-brain-shocks-doctors/