Romansh: Here we go off topic ... as a substance dualist you will have to show me with some degree corroborating evidence that either a) a thought is anything but an arrangement of compounds ions etc in your brain or b) that the thought is indeed immaterial and somehow your brain can write to the thought and vice versa without using energy.-I've pointed out that the brain uses energy, and lots of it to funtion. But the thought I am having as I write this is a result of that energy, but the thought itself contains no energy, since it is immaterial. This is the emergent issue at hand. This is the problem in NDE research. Eben Alexander's NDE somehow occurred with seven days of no cerebral function.