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@jazztao
We could do a brain scan and see that the language center is active while we read it and type it, but the brain scan cannot tell whether what we are discussing is right or wrong anymore than it could show that we were discussing baseball or tapioca pudding rather than philosophy.
Language works as a form of communication, and therefore the information is in the brain. You cannot tell tapioca from baseball in a brain state now, but the information has to be stored in a consistent manner. If you can remember which one you discussed yesterday, it is in principle possible to read that from your brain. What is missing from any such analysis is this: why are you aware?