Amos, why should your thoughts and experience be any more realistic or true than anyone else's? What you deem as true for you might be false for someone else. And yet, if you were to subject yourself to neurological manipulation, I would bet you that you could change your tune.

There are so many today who rely on their own conscious experience as being some kind of unassailable truth, many in mental institutions though I'm not saying Amos is crazy, but many of these personalized experiences are hearsay and not supported by concrete evidence, not allowed, for example, in a court of law which requires evidential testing.

Personal experience is not a legitimate argument to substantiate a real event. There have been instances when eye-witnesses to a crime have been wrong, inconsistent and have not agreed as to what they saw. This is why genetic testing, physical evidence and scientific expertise is used in courtrooms.

There is no legitimate scientific argument for the separation of "mind" and the brain.