When Sharada occupied the body, she could only converse in Bengali. When Uttara occupied, she had no knowledge of Bengali whatsoever. There was very little in the way of mixing of the two personalities, and neither had access to each other’s long-term memories, especially in regards to language. Yet there was some awareness of the other, and some short-term memories that appear to be brain imprints, enabling some limited memory sharing. What does this tell us about the anatomy of consciousness and the role of the brain in enabling consciousness to interface with the body? It seems the seat of language memory is, indeed, not stored in the brain. What can Creator tell us?

This is the correct perspective. There is a language processing center within the brain, but that is not a storage repository but simply what is labeled as a function to bring about language use because of the neuroanatomical association from lost speech when that area is damaged. But that brings one back to the analogy of the brain being more like a television set that displays sounds and pictures and much content, all of which is coming from outside itself in another form that is simply transduced and displayed, and this makes it externally visible. In that regard, the television set is a sophisticated transducer of energy from one form to another and nothing more. The same is true of the brain, it is consciousness that truly does the work, it uses the brain as a platform to organize information and interface with bodily functions of all kinds, and that indeed is an elegant orchestration and quite complex. But the bulk of consciousness does not reside within the brain to begin with, but interacts with it and impinges information that is actionable on the brain apparatus, somewhat like electricity making machine parts move, but this is more than just energy we speak of, it is the energy of information in what consciousness consists of and performs in representing a soul-based being and activating the physical body as a kind of container. The awareness that was shared was done largely through what is called cellular consciousness, the learning of cells, including cells within the brain. There is consciousness throughout the body in various forms with various purposes so, indeed, what you speak of as a "brain imprint" is a local imprinting of consciousness as a kind of memory within the cells of the brain, and this gives the crude representation of something having an impact that might need to be referenced, and so is leaving its imprint on the body for a quick reference. There are many bodily functions that are facilitated through cellular consciousness—things like repetitive tasks, athletic performance, playing a musical instrument, and other activities relying on muscle memory. The mind is no exception and, given its quite large array of functions and types of information that impinge on it, there is a correspondingly greater sophistication of cellular consciousness in memory that creates an extensive reference bank of knowledge and associations. This is a great practical benefit because it provides a quick take on something so a person can act very, very quickly in a situation that triggers something within cellular memory of the brain so a response can be launched immediately.