[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

Originally Posted by Open Mind

No need for uploading theories yet, first you need to supply solid evidence all types of memory are within the brain. For example, where in the brain are long term memories stored? Can you provide evidence that memories are stored at the point of stimulation?

Why do I have to do that? Why don't you have to supply solid evidence that memories are stored elsewhere, including an explanation for why there is apparently no transceiver and why just about every sort of memory is affected by damage to the brain?

Here is my evidence: Every single memory we have found so far is located in the brain. That suggests they all are, until evidence appears to the contrary.

Since you raised the computer term 'upload', let us continue with your analogy. A computer system on the internet doesn't need to have all the websites it can access on its very own hard drive, the data can be remotely accessed. Yet some of it's data is local too. Other types of information can only be read in fragments and are not stored as a whole on computer (like streaming audio files under copyright protection). In fact if someone who didn't know how the whole internet system worked (just like we don't know how the brain works) they might apply pseudo-occam and state everything is generated by our hard drives and local computer system rather than an another invisible source.

How would they explain the purpose of the Internet connection? How would they explain the presence of an image that was nowhere on the hard drive?

Of course the brain is filtering. Even as a materialist you would have to accept the brain is filtering from your consciousness irrelevant or useless memories. The fact we can forget or are at times forgetful shows the brain does filter memory. Or do you think people with psychological problems never suppress memories? If you accept multiple personality disorder exists then you have to accept the brain filters memory ....

I was talking about a filter on the transceiver.

Much of the materialist's argument is based upon 'false memory' ..... tell me what specific evolutionary advantage was the capacity to have 'false memories' that do not match physical reality? How could that evolve, what are these are an epiphenomenon of?

There is no evolutionary advantage to "false memories." There simply is no significant disadvantage to having them. Things only have to evolve to work well enough for survival.

~~ Paul