Neil Slade is one of several people interested in the brain & consciousness.
www.neilslade.com/Papers/Library.html, http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/BrainExploreWithNeilSlade
http://paranormalresearchforum.net/neil-slade-clairvoyance-telepathy-telekinesis-clairaudience
http://bmi.epfl.ch, www.eni-net.org/organization/home-institutions/the-brain-and-mind-institute-lausanne,
http://discovermagazine.com/topics/mind-brain, http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/category/mind-brain/
www.scientificamerican.com/mind-and-brain, www.sciencedaily.com/news/mind_brain
Steven Pinker:
www.time.com, www.ted.com/speakers/steven_pinker.html
Cartesian_Theater & the Chinese_room
Consciousness www.quantumconsciousness.org , http://consc.net/online
Many people believe that the mind is merely a product of a physical brain & consciousness is only relevant to a living person. www.skepdic.com/reincarn.html
However, many people also believe in the possibility of reincarnation. The implications are tremendous because it would mean that ones consciousness can experience many lifetimes.
All_the_world's_a_stage
http://shakespeare.mit.edu/asyoulikeit/asyoulikeit.2.7.html
http://fusionanomaly.net/consciouslanguage.html
Many people still can't see_the_forest_through_the_trees.
Are we in a comic Virtuality created by the gods? Well, not everyone believes in more than one god & many people are agnostic or atheist. So science can connect more of the dots or just filter out more pertinent data. Of course each religion can be used to filter out a lot of data also, or expand ones perspective. That's part of the conundrum, data is open to interpretation & many belief patterns are set by the age of 20, 30 or 40.
VR_reconstruction & data interpolation can be applied to almost anything.
The cosmic-computer-hypothesis can create 3D digital models of people, planets & galaxies.
A modern attempt of the mythical akashic-records is gradually being developed. In essence, almost anything can become part of a global database. But how did people in ancient times even have the concept of a cosmic or akashic recording system in the first place? Metaphorically each galaxy is like its own DVD or BD. www.apple.com/why-mac/compare
Computer models can be use to apply various sciences & religions to past & present real life scenarios. Even
reincarnation & time travel, coincidence & synchronicity can be expressed as computer programs to examine reality from various perspectives. So whether the universe just magically appeared or its a product of a creator, certain shapes & patterns should be detectable.
The data is there but, coincidence & synchronicity is open to interpretation, see the flight-191-enigma.
Metaphorically, the universe is something in between a computer & a running program or OS.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/01/10/is-the-universe-a-computer/
The cosmos is a vast data-field of interactive recordings & projections.
http://discovermagazine.com/2011/jun/03-our-universe-may-be-a-giant-hologram
