[Open Mind]

Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos

why just about every sort of memory is affected by damage to the brain?

This is debatable (more on this later) but regardless the hypothesis I've suggested that the brain is fundamentally filtering, it is all rather expected.

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.

This is close to non falsifiability. Yes, if you probe the brain and you find a memory triggered, tell me how would you decide a thought was not in the brain by such a method? Unless you can create unique detailed thought in someone's mind and trigger it constantly as memory, it is still only suggestive at best.

You have to look elsewhere to for falsifiability such as psi or say the Near Death Experiences. Incidentally, which is your favoured NDE explanation?

(1) People hallucination they are dying before they have died
(2) The electrically dead brain hallucinates more vividly than normal dreams
(3) People hallucinate they are dying when coming back to life.
(4) Agnostics, atheists, skeptics and infant children invent those after narrowly escaping death?

How would they explain the purpose of the Internet connection?

Wireless internet connections exist. It is analogy of course. I have suggested mind (or a more fundamental consciousness) can divide can evolve into complex systems due to the brain filtering past memory/ telepathy.

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.

So you are telling me an animal not correctly remembering or mixing up the location of food is 'no significant disadvantage'? If we have the capacity to remember accurately, why did the capacity to remember wrongly survive? If things only need to work 'well enough for survival'? in that case why did the materialists idea of a 'user illusion' of consciousness evolve at all?