by William Halal
Introduction
This seminal article by Michael Towsey is must reading for any scholar who cares about limits to the physical paradigm in science. Towsey does a masterful job of pulling together the contrary evidence that has been gathering for decades to challenge the belief that information in the brain alone can explain consciousness. These “anomalies” include the missing 95 percent of all matter and energy thought to be “dark” stuff that pervades the universe; the indeterminate nature of atomic behavior at the quantum level; our inability to explain the origins of life; the sense of purpose and other inner qualities of the mind; and even evidence suggesting that extrasensory perception and homeopathy are real.(continue…)