Maybe. But the brain is not the only place where memory is stored. Flat worms remember things (and skills!) after their head has been cut off and they regrew it:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/these-decapita...
Granted though many/most organs are stateful and somewhat adaptive - in a sense they'll "remember" what happened. Even plants possess that to varying degrees.
Go watch Stable Diffusion iteratively transform noise into originality.
A lot of good, creative ideas have been called out and derived as nonsense or crazy. Many still are.