Are mind and consciousness reducible to events in the physical brain?

    Notes drawn from Pim van Lommel, Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience (New York: HarperCollins, 2010) [originally published in Dutch as Eindeloos Bewustzijn]:   Consciousness, the subjective experience of an inner self, poses one of the greatest challenges to neuroscience.  Even a detailed knowledge of the brain’s workings and neural correlates of […]