[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for the link!

The part about shuffling around salamander brains and memory returning is particularly fascinating as it runs contrary to Crick's "Astonishing Hypothesis" where he asserts that mind (including the soul) is fully contained within the physical brain. Your linked article said:

Indiana University biologist Paul Pietsch set out to disprove Pribram's theories. In a series of over 700 operations on salamanders, however, he discovered that their learned behavior was not affected by repositioning, reversing, or even shuffling the brain. After recovering from the operation, their behavior returned to normal.2

I recall one of the reviews of Crick's work said that it would be necessary to run many test removing different parts of the human brain to test the theory (and that would never happen in our society.)

[js1138]

I recall one of the reviews of Crick's work said that it would be necessary to run many test removing different parts of the human brain to test the theory (and that would never happen in our society.)

It happens all the time due to accidents and cerebrovascular accidents. It's also possible to study localization of function with real-time MRI scans. Non-locality of memory has been known for decades. It is one of the reasons I believe artificial intelligence is beyond my lifetime, because no one knows how it works.

None of this argues for any non-physical property of the mind. Just because memories are spread out doesn't mean they aren't embodied.

From the standpoint of ID vs evolution, I find it interesting that the level of redundency in the brain is staggering, compared, say to the redundency of the space shuttle's heat shield.