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I'm particularly looking for a response that predicts the correlation between brain states (drugged, damaged, diseased, etc) and behavior. I would like, for example, to see a non-physical or extra-physical explanation for the inability to form long-term memories. Please bear in mind that there is a prefectly functional physical explanation, complete with data, photographs of neural connections, specific sites of injuries, and so forth. Your explanation would need to predict some phenomenon that is not predicted by the standard brain model.

Thank you for your question!

As long as we accept the notion that the space/time inception point for a cascade of successful communication (Shannon) throughout molecular machinery occurs within the physical brain - for those creatures who have a physical brain - there is no conflict with the empirical and observational evidence.

Such evidence however does not address at all the host for the mind, for consciousness - the cause for the inception or beginning.

Moreover, the amoeba evidence indicates that the will to live must exist outside the physical brain. So does the observational evidence of the behavior of collectives as a single mind - bees and ants, etc.

All of this observational evidence points to consciousness being hosted separately but integrated to the organism - a "field-like" property in the most primative level.

In terms of prediction - on first blush it is evident that it would manifest exactly what we observe in the continuum of the fossil record: life advancing ever more aggressively.