I look at the brain more as the switching gear - like a phone exchange. I think the mind is like the conversations going on across those physical links. And of course then you have the people doing the conversing who are the 'I' presence for whom it all runs.
Just like the brain, most of the time when you pick up your phone to talk to me, the same equipment responds - also like the brain, on occasion it might be necessary to switch to an alternate circuit to route the conversation.
But the issue I have is looking at MRI's and similar real-time operations of the brain. They tend to point to a location and say things like, "this is where the taste of ice cream is stored and it links to over there where we store cold." The problem is, those same areas light up for (say) the taste of thickened cream and walking in the snow.
It seems to me that when they talk about where memories are, they are pointing at the switching gear that accesses those memories, NOT where the memories are stored. I think the memories are encoded in the hologram that is the mind field - which is why amnesia can happen and also why it can go away...
For amnesia, the shape of the field is altered, so the memory vanishes. It can sometimes return because a hologram tends to have all the information encoded in each part, so if the entire area is not wiped clean, the info can get rebuilt, like a RAID hard drive can be rebuilt from the ones that didn't fail.
