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Frank Matera
I'm unaware of any parapsychologists at large confirming anything you written. I still don't see how what you believe logically begets the latter to the total elimination of the former. I can just as easily believe based upon all the evidence presented by neuroscience and parapsychology that the brain creates consciousness [mind], that the mind continues after death, that the brain can somehow do all the things you say so. Your position is equivalent to the classical world does not exist because quantum physics negates it which clearly is a false premiss.
Because to come to the conclusion you have... you have cherry picked your evidence to come to a certain conclusion you are comfortable with. No sweat though... Scientists have been doing it for years.
Nobody here who has had studied all the facts and data relating to Mediumship for example and had personal experience with it could ever come to the conclusion that "logically" Mind=brain and psi. It just simply is not possible and I will explain why.
I myself for example sat in a Mediumship circle doing Phsyical Mediumship where myself and 4 others did glass moving. We place the very tips of our fingers on the glass and it would move in response to questions we asked with virtually no pressure exerted on the glass. Now where it gets interesting is as I am a Mental Medium I am also receiving information at the same time this is happening in my head. The "spirit/energy" whatever you want to call them... is communicating to me mentally, whilst it is communicating to everyone else around the table Physically via the glass... so I knew the answers before the glass moved. Big circles for yes... small circles for no... move directly to the person the message is for etc. So I knew the glass was moving correctly and I certainly was not influencing it whatsoever.
Now during this sessions whilst questions were being asked to the spirit like "Who the message was for?" (It moved directly to 1 person at the table) Are you Male? Did you live in Australia? Did you live Overseas? Did you pass away in the last 20 years? etc etc) I was getting more detailed information via the mental mediumship so I started asking more direct questions... but because I am an absolute skeptical prick when it comes to this stuff I specifically asked questions I KNEW were wrong... in the hope the response would be a NO... and every single time it was spot on.
I then asked questions that were very specific. "Is your name Frederick?" (Yes). Are you related to Mike (person at the table)? (No) (I knew this was not the case). Are you a family friend of his parents? (Yes) Are you from England? (Yes) Did you know MIke? (No), Did you ever come to Australia? (No) Did you work as a doctor (No) (Again I asked this knowing it was not right) Did you work as a Carpenter? (Yes). Did you pass away from a heart attack? (Yes). All very specific information that was being answered by a glass moving on the table.
Here is where it gets freaky. Mike at the table... did not have the first clue who this person was... so we noted it all down afterwards and he spoke to his parents. Guess what... they had a family friend called Frederick who was long time friends of his parents who worked as a carpenter and had lived in England his entire life and passed away from a heart attack.
So how does Mind = Brain and PSI explain that? When the person receiving the message wasn't even aware of the information (So can't have been PSI or even Super-PSI).
At the end of the day personal experience counts... I'm one of the most skeptical people around when it comes to this stuff... but if I have proven to myself it exists... why should I care what "neuroscience and parapsychology" tells me is possible.