Are you? Your posts certainly dont indicate that. It seems to me more like that you already decided to believe in a more "materialistic" opinion on those things since you promote those ideas in some of your posts. Of course, you can discuss all day and night here, im not saying anything against that - i just dont see what you expect to get out of that. I assume that you are not here to get magically convinced of the proponents view on various things. If you just want to know about consciousness, well, scientific american is propably closer to your belief, isnt it? Wouldnt that be easier?
I mean, i personally want to find more information from the proponents viewpoint here since i can not decide for myself whats right and whats wrong. But for a person who already decided that for him or herself i see no reason to be here, except propably proponents who like to hear alex's podcast. Call me a ignorant fool because of that, but i cant understand that. I'd like to though if its possible.