Thank you for your response. I also agree, to an extent, it is a foolish idea because it does not fall within my paradigm of how the brain is supposed to operate. That opens a new question about my issues with their claim and maybe the lines of evidence I hold dear are being interpreted wrong on my part, and others. Does that thought ever occur to others? I can listen to a lecture by somebody I vastly disagree with and by the end of it (most of the time) my synopsis of their work isn't, "this man is a fool". I can take what they have to say, mull it over and see where they're coming from. And if I can't, then the first thought through my mind is maybe I'm the fool for not comprehending it, not them. I suppose our brains are just built differently. But, in your defense steve001, there are times when I do come across with an opinion of somebody as a fool, I just try to provide a rationale afterwards if I'm on a forum.
But anyways... my quarrel wasn't with your claim but with your reasoning for it. But you providing your reason (your opinion, nice one) so thank you and now we can move forward. Forgive me, but a lot of the time it seems you are on a ideological-bent war with yourself. Making the world safe for your worldview one forum at a time but the only one you're convincing is yourself... and I often share your "science fan boy" attitude, all though I don't care for that term lol But, I think I have to disagree with you that direct evidence of "simple" (nice ambiguous term btw) forgetfulness, amnesia, dementia of all types, brain trauma, age related memory loss is evidence that these are products of the brain. I would say it's evidence that our awareness of these can be altered and removed. But people who have dementia and become lucid on "good days" show that the file is still in the hard drive, so to speak, but the folder is just missing from your desktop. So I wouldn't say it's definite evidence memories are located in the brain but I wouldn't say it's not evidence for it also. I would say it's sort of evidence on the fence. It can appeal to one side of an argument, or from another point of view, it can appeal elsewhere with similar utility.