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There are many more crazy things regarding the brain. Man living with 5% of the brain: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-... . One case IQ 75, but another case IQ 176 and degree in Mathematics.

Supposedly hippocampus stores memories, but people with operated hippocampus still keep their memories? Psychodelic or meditative states being associated with significant reduction of all brain activity, what conflicts with the subjective experience.

Now, for example there are 12 medical cases described where blind people approaching death regained left their body and described visual information in the operating room, what was corroborated by impartial skeptic medical professionals: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=Mindsight:+N... . There is very sizable amount of evidence that something is going on in conciousness than just purely material. Read this article before you make the final judgement: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6172100/ . I am not implying any magic - maybe quantum computations like in Penrose/Hammerhof theory? Maybe material world is an "icon" of more complex reality underneath like in Donald Hoffman's model?

I'm looking for a scientific discussion here, not just "someone who thinks that materialism is not all that describes reality is surely crazy".



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