Generally, yes. That's why people tend to go for quite a while before noticing the damage.
The mechanism isn't perfect and there are plenty of scenarios where your brain doesn't fill in the information, like the one I described. You also see it when looking at repeating patterns. It isn't something super obvious and if you choose to ignore it, it mostly goes away.
If your brain magically filled in the missing part of your vision in all cases, ask yourself how we would ever know that anyone has any amount of damage to their vision. Obviously we do know, since people talk about it. There must be some mechanism by which the damage becomes apparent to the patient.
The mechanism isn't perfect and there are plenty of scenarios where your brain doesn't fill in the information, like the one I described. You also see it when looking at repeating patterns. It isn't something super obvious and if you choose to ignore it, it mostly goes away.
If your brain magically filled in the missing part of your vision in all cases, ask yourself how we would ever know that anyone has any amount of damage to their vision. Obviously we do know, since people talk about it. There must be some mechanism by which the damage becomes apparent to the patient.