[Consort]

I was basing my idea in the possibility that the human mind in any given lifetime knows itself from conception to the death, at a minimum. I was differentiating the non-physical mind from the physical brain. Our selfness spans our lifetimes.

[MHGinTN]

Hypnotism assumes mind as a recorder of events held within the subconsious, thus your reliance upon hypnosis would be dependant upon the brain as the organ of greatest worth, the seat of the 'recorder'. From a purely biologically consistent perspective, mind is a function of brain, as opposed to reproduction or digestion or elimination. Before the brain functions as a recorder, what would be the 'location'/locus of awareness that would be tapped with hypnosis of the brain? See the paradoxical circle you're suggestion would entail?