The issue of energy production and disappearance in the universe has modulated since the days of Newton, and entropy may not be the ock concept it was once thought to be, since it seems at a quantum level to appear and disappear regularly.

The impact of awareness on material systems has also been re-evaluated since the days of Schrodinger's thought experiment with superimposed pussies. A great deal has been done, scientifically, to examine these connections under rigorous conditions and the results are generally very interesting, and indicative that the "all particles all the time" model of existence toward which our revered skeptics gravitate is perhaps lacking as a map of existence. The key hole in their argument is that the awareness of particles does not equate to awareness BY particles. Awareness, by its nature, appears to be something more. Defining it is extraordinarily arguable in a world where the predominance of material energy, form, and force has been the law for so long.

One very good compendium of a lot of these experiments can be found in this book:

The Field, L. McTaggart, Harper Perennial; Updated edition (January 2, 2008).

It doesn't address the question of afterlife, but it does examine many of the other bits and pieces about which we have here been chattering on.

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