Wired magazine presents a nice summary of one of the themes that pops up here from time to time, the material brain vice more transcendental models of how life works in the world.

The article is on this page, and reports current reserarch into the validity and nature of those strange perceptions people report while brain-dead.(Don't go there, Spaw...).

About ten to twenty per cent of people who have been resuscitated from clinical death report active consciousness of the room and events in it they "could not" have recorded physically.

Other articles of interest can be found here:

What Buddhists Know About Science

Consciousness Based on Wireless?

TMS: Twilight Zone Science?

Awareness: Mystery of the Mind

Intelligence Relative, Study Says

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