Crisis actor? Please don't mix metaphors.
He is a disinformation specialist.
In about 50 years, Stephen Hawking's name will be stricken from science books. What he has done has set science back almost a hundred years. Fortunately, the universe will show that Stephen Hawking is wrong. No black holes; no big bang. It will be absolutely breathtaking when we see a new galaxy form.
But the brain is not the mind:
No evidence can be given. It is all, well, in the mind.
But, you can go and explore your mind, and when you really get into understanding who you are, you will then know that your brain is not your mind.