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Bergson and neuroscience

In *Matter and Memory* Henri Bergson seems to propose that human beings unconsciously retain 100% of our experiences in memory and that a failure to remember a particular \`something\` is more of a mechanical/physiological error on the part of the brain specifically than a non-existence of the memory. I will say that I am not an experienced scholar in this area of study so I may be misunderstanding his position. I would like to know whether there is any empirical evidence in modern neuroscience to support his claim? I understand that in many of Bergson\`s ideas he gives very little reasoning or explanation in the first place but I do feel as though there is some truth to the idea and have had similar thoughts about memories that seems to appear out of nowhere.
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That's not really what Bergson is arguing. Bergson is a dualist  (though a very unique one); what he wants to show is how pure experience surpasses the brain so to speak, and that it's the brain that funnels or filters this pure experience into the experience that corresponds with successful bodily/practical action in the world. He has a very functionalist account of how the mind works *at the level of cerebral activity*: the brain isn't a box of memories, but a collection of operations or a set of rules to use pure experience (or pure past time) in a way that allows us to function in the world.