[snarks_when_bored]

What physical interaction mediates this transmission and reception? Where's the evidence for such an interaction? Where are the specific transmission and reception sites in the brain? Why haven't brain anatomists seen such sites?

You are begging the question. If the soul exists, it would be, as traditionally stated, the substantial form of the body. He is not really proving immortality but existence "outside" the body. Apart from the body, the soul would "fade away" as dissolution takes place. This is Aristotle's view. Plato's view is that the soul is something that exists before the body takes shape and will survive it.

I don't think I was begging the question so much as attempting to elicit a response that had some hope of making sense from an empirical point of view. The brain is a physical object and if one claims that it's serving as some sort of receiver or transmitter of information, one ought to be able to say something meaningful about how that process takes place physically. If, as you suggest, reversion to a pre-scientific notion of 'soul' is the issue, none of this has anything to do with medicine or science at all, and so the fact that it is a medical doctor who is making the claim is irrelevant—he is not making the claim qua physician.

[Blind Eye Jones]

"If, as you suggest, reversion to a pre-scientific notion of 'soul' is the issue, none of this has anything to do with medicine or science at all, and so the fact that it is a medical doctor who is making the claim is irrelevant—he is not making the claim qua physician."

Perhaps science is outside its jurisdiction with certain everyday pre scientific phenomena, like our consciousness or creativity. Science can't determine this yet, if it can at all. I have read somewhere that the id is the creator of everything, including science. That science has to stand on the back of the pre-scientific, like dwarfs standing on each other's backs... but building a human pyramid of knowledge. Every now and then there is a giant that comes along and tries to lift everybody higher to see a new horizon or it tries to violently knock down the whole thing. Copernicus and his Pope where two such giants... but if science does come from the id, do you think that there may be many sciences for different cultures, as there has been a variety of science (Ptolemaic, Newtonian, etc.) for ours?