Perhaps transplant cases can be explained in terms of holography, in which a part contains a representation of the whole. Holography would be a natural way to conceptualize transplant phenomena, and it may not be beyond reason. Neurosurgeon Karl Pribram (1991, 2004, 2013) has argued for years that memory is best explained holonomically (his preferred term), which allows him to adhere to a brain-production theory of mind while acknowledging that memory is not contained in the brain. There is no evident reason that the subconscious mind could not be organized like a hologram, even if it were not
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