I used a similiar analogy. The Brain is Computer that runs the Program, the Program being Physical Consciousness. The MIND however, is the User (the part you seem to leave out entirely from your theory). The user simply uses the Computer to run the Program which is designed to store and retrieve information upon the Users command. The Program is stored on the Hard Drive (eternity/God/Zero Point Field). Even if the Computer and Program is destroyed, the User does not go away, it simply uses ‘a different computer.’
But what’s the purpose of this? There’s not enough mental code to be sifting through. One part of your theory that is sad is that it leaves no room for interpretation of Dreams, basically reducing our Dreams to just random bits of raw information. But this does not coincide with the fact that many people, including myself, end up developing tremendous insight to their Selves. If Dreams were just random decoding of even more random code, they should never, EVER be coherent (since the part of the brain that normally processes this information into coherent patterns is inactive). Your theory also does not explain at all what a Lucid Dream is, which is a combination of steps 2 and 3 of your theory, yet completely skipping step 1! How is this possible if the Brain is producing this lucid image?
Wouldn’t that require even MORE Brain power? To receive no physical stimuli but to still produce coherent images? The Brain would actually be working more to decode all this random and seemingly scattered info into some kind of picture. Once again, this also doesn’t even take into account OBE’s, NDE’s, and LD’s.
Produced where? Where is it being produced from? Is it just recyclying old data over and over? Once again, what about LD’s?
Kinda…but you say NDE’s are similiar to Dreams but unfortunately, NDE’s completely obliterate your theory because at the time of an NDE, the brain isn’t active by any measureble standard. These are people that are verified dead and show no brain activity, some people even ‘dead’ for up to three days (I’ll be happy to pull the link). How is the brain producing these ‘hallucinations’ and ‘dreams’ in such a state of reduced functionality that it’s technically not even working at it’s base state? There would be no code to process.
Unless, simply, the Brain does not produce any kind of imagry whatsoever. The Brain is simple a device, a bridge, used to pass information back and forth. Once it’s functions are either reduced (sleeping), bypassed (meditation/drugs) or even destroyed/shut down (NDE’s/Death), it simply allows the User to have access to the rest of the information that existed outside the confines of the Program ie…the rest of the Hard Drive (existance/eternity).
Just some food for thought. Once again, sorry if I sound like I’m trying to break your ideas down, I just enjoy friendly intellectual debate.