I've heard a similar theory that our memories are not in the brain, the brain is just a configured antenna for perceiving our memories elsewhere. It's a charmin

I've heard a similar theory that our memories are not in the brain, the brain is just a configured antenna for perceiving our memories elsewhere. It's a charming theory, mind opening theory (pun not intended), but all kinds of self-consistent theories are possible, and we rule out many of them by looking at the facts, for example by checking the structure of a neuron as is in the brain we've created AI, and so clearly the brain is complex and capable enough of holding its own memories. This doesn't rule out the brain being an antenna that connects it to a field of consciousness or energy and so on. In fact we could think of those concepts of "a structure containing X" and "an antenna structured to perceive and emit X" as analogous, because a brain doesn't exist unto itself, it's part of the universe and it's subject to the laws of physics. So it's merely environmental configuration of matter an energy that works according to how the universe "wants" it to work. TLDR: It's worth pondering, but I think we need evidence for it. I think all complex systems generate their consciousness depending on the patterns within that repeat again and again. The more complex the systems, the more complex the consciousness. Which means in a way computers also are conscious (this does not mean they have emotions, that's another story entirely).