Thanks for your response. To answer your question as best I can, my primary interest, with respect to this thread, is exploring for the purpose of understanding as much as I am able in as many ways as I am able. I am obviously interested in the neuroscientific research on the biology of consciousness and perception, about which I actually know very little, but would like to know and understand more. Much of what I have posted is simply me thinking and processing out loud. I am posting links to information and viewpoints that I personally consider worth pondering, in the perhaps arrogant belief that others might also find them interesting, informative and thought provoking. I can only speak for myself, but I am not looking for proof of anything, nor am I seeking to prove anything. While it is apparent that my interest overlaps with and is informed by my own training and work as a psychotherapist, this as much a personal exploration as a professional one. As Steven Levine says, "the only work we have to do is on ourselves."