I think conflating mind and brain is an instance of supreme arrogance, or at least overweening assertiveness about a little-understood phenomenon.

It's a long time since neurologists made the distinction between the hardware (the brain) and the process running on that hardware (the mind). It's certain that brain damage severely compromises the mind, spirit, soul, or whatever you like to call it.


I mentioned earlier the simple observation that most people can move pictures around and view them near of far away from the body.

No they can't.

If there is a single instance of thought occurring after brain-death...

If there is a single instance of a "brain" containing data which has no legitimate business being in it,...If there is a single verifiable instance of a being moving out of a body...

A lot of big ifs. Whenever tested properly, they have been proved illusionary. You seem to be desperate to have "something extra". That's just greedy. Read Oliver Sachs and wonder.