[js1138]

How could this be observed? More importantly, how could this be falsified?

You are asking a question that cannot be answered if you insist on personally experiencing everything you believe to be true.

However, the effects of brain damage are among the most widely studied in the entire field of neuroscience. In addition to the case cited above, there is a famous case of an artist wh lost color vision as a result of an accident. He lost not only his color vision, but also his knowledge and memory of colors.

Another link.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you for the links and the excerpt! They were both interesting.

This evidence supports Gerald Edelman's contention that memories are're-constructed' each time we remember them and do not exist as separate entities stored in a mythical filing cabinet.

That statement speaks to the process of memory rather than whether the mind is an epiphenomenon of the physical brain. IOW, the trial suggests that the process of recall is more like a hologram than an access of a database - each slice giving the whole view but from a different aspect. I believe the trial may eliminate a networked database structure but I do not see where it has eliminated either a relational or a hierarchical structure or has establish a holographic type structure.

Moreover, it does not settle whether the mind is an epiphenomenon of the physical brain or whether the physical brain is the mechanism of mind (like a transmitter/receiver). I know of no clinical test which could falsify either worldview.