I appreciate you indulging my ignorance when it comes to neuroscience. I do write advanced AI-driven medical software for a living so I'm no scientific dummy. I was under the impression that Sheldrake has widely published his results and that some were indeed confirmed by numerous others in terms of statistical occurrences. I'll admit a bias toward a living Cosmos over a dead one. The more I read and the more I observe, I don't think I am alone in thinking our definition for life is lacking. Lewis Thomas wrote a thoughtful book Lives of a Cell that likened the Earth to a cell that I read as a young man and it stuck with me. It seems easy to dismiss all these thinkers as flakes but they may be on to something, intuitionally. We've just recently learned how trees communicate with each other using Mycilium which are very neuron-like. I clearly state that we don't know of the existence of a soul but that if we did, it would likely involve physics we just don't understand yet. If it doesn't exist, then of course it could confirm a bio-chemical explanation of self-awareness which is still a marvel. A big clump of "dead" atoms can produce JS Bach and all his music and much more!