If you have a fully functional parietal lobe, then you’ll be able to recognize and appreciate faces. Facial recognition in humans functions differently than other forms of object recognition. We usually don’t identify the individual pieces of a face, but its gestalt.
Any face, no matter how ugly, is whole and complete in itself. We don’t look at just the eyes, or just the nose, or just the mouth. We take in the whole face, and we appreciate not only the pieces in themselves but mostly how the pieces relate to each other. All the elements of the faces we know come together into complete and inseparable representations of the people we love. In the face, we see character and history.
This quality of seeing the whole as more than the sum of its parts is analogous to the way that all of what is happening can be perceived as being whole and complete in itself. The face is the perfect analogy because there is nothing missing and there is nothing wrong with it.
As anyone who struggles with body dysmorphia can tell you, spending hours obsessing about parts of the body as not being “right” can be exhausting. Some people look in the mirror and, missing the overall wholeness of the face, observe only the nose and judge it to be too large, or focus only on the bags under the eyes and wish they would go away.
