"A person IS just a brain, your personality, memories are all stored in your brain, your feelings, senses, everything is processes in your brain forming the person that you are. That much has been proven countless times, there are plenty of examples that show that people who have trauma to a particular part of the brain can get complete new personalities after the accident. "
Are you sure?
There is the problem of implied knowledge, how do you know something youve never been told? It may be possible for some things to 'work them out' from previous explicit knowledge but others this appears imposible.
The most abstract theory about this is that of metamorphic fields. This is a sort of common knowledge database 'ether' that every brain is connected too. Although it is bizare it does explain alot of things.
I'm convinced my computer is intelligent, everytime, just as I'm about to finnish doing something important it decides to blue screen me. How does it know?