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A Mechanism for Mind-Brain Interaction Based on NDE and Neurological Evidence by Robert Mays

We propose a new substance dualist framework to explain consciousness, drawing on near-death experience (NDE) and neurological evidence. Evidence from veridical NDE perceptions suggests that consciousness can separate from the physical body as an individuated, self-aware entity or mind. We propose that the mind is a separate entity from the physical body, belonging to a distinct ontological category. Accordingly, the human being is conceptualized as the union of the mind entity (or soul) and the physical body. As the locus of consciousness, the mind entity possesses all the attributes of consciousness: perception, thinking, emotion, memory, volition, and self-awareness. We provide NDE evidence that the mind entity interacts in general with physical processes and specifically with neural activity in the brain. The mechanism for mind-brain interaction involves initially triggering and then detecting neural action potentials. The induced neural activity in specific regions brings the mind’s mental content to awareness. The mind-brain interface occurs in cortical dendritic spines, where the mind triggers calcium ion release from the spine apparatus via spine F-actin filaments. Inhaled anesthetics dissolve these filaments, blocking this process, leading to loss of consciousness. The mind entity’s actions to induce cortical activity can explain numerous cognitive neurological processes including perception and language comprehension. The full paper this talk is based on is at https://selfconsciousmind.com/Mechanism%20...