You write stating that if they do not answer by XX then they cannot ethically be part of the manuscript given they are asked to take responsibility for the current revised version. Perhaps with better wording than mine.

I mean it is easier to manipulate people when they are not aware of the legal mechanisms that protect them, whether they are temporal residents or have implied status.

Agreed. We also need broader education about implied status and options for the people "in the limbo," as the risk stems mostly from a lack of information about alternatives.

Having gone through that I sympathize but the article is fluff in regards to immigration status. He has a work permit and his (dependent) daughters have implied status despite the permit expiring.

I guess the bigger history here is government cutting employees with obvious work to be done.

"Aura farming"

Thanks. I Appreciate it

Oh man, letters to the editor should be open access.

Anyway, if you enjoy the idea and want to read more about it, I examine these topics in my substack:

> andresdelgadoron.substack.com/profile/posts

The posts can be read chronologically.

I often wonder what this means for mental health:

Is that the reason why interventions like mindfulness or psychedelics are so effective?

Is that the reason why religious attendance—and I am not religious—has such a big effect of happiness beyond behavioral changes?

Yet, the most important question would be:
Does brain-mind dualism challenges neurology? In short, no. It seems feasible that the brain does not create consciousness, but permits, limits, or transmits it.

In other words, we may have confused a motherboard with a joystick's Printed Circuit Board.

4. Parsimony:
When considered in tandem, the evidence of NDEs and cases of reincarnation type points to the existence of mental states beyond the brain. Whether this is quantum is yet to be proven.

In my view, the most compelling competing theory would be fraud in the scale of a fake moon landing.

Children aged 2 to 5 who remember past lives often provide accurate details of unknown people (names, places, modes of death, belongings), exhibit weird behavior and sometimes bare marks that coincide with old wounds, which implies a biological effect of consciousness, and not the other way around.

Near-Death Experiences challenge our best biological models of consciousness (see Greyson and Pehlivanova, 2025), mainly due to a mismatch between cortical activity, and reported experience (which often involves "non-local" descriptions.

However, NDEs pale in comparison with cases of reincarnation.

3. Phenomenology
Neither quantum mechanics nor quantum biology are suggestive of the mind beyond the brain per se. Rather, they leave the door open for interpreting two distinct phenomena under a non-local framework:

(i) Near-Death Experiences &
(ii) Children who remember details of past lives.

We also know that the most likely explanation for how birds perceived magnetic fields is through quantum mechanics.

While there is no confirmation that our brain is quantum, this is no longer irrational and current research is exploring our very own microtubules as potential quantum state holders.

2. Quantum biology:

When Schrödinger wrote about his famous cat, he tried to envision how the quantum scale could affect the macroscopic world.

A few years later, we found ourselves with confirmation that quantum effects are responsible for the high-efficiency of photosynthesis.

Entangled particles work like a reflection of each other, no matter the distance in between.

The fact that two independent particles behave as two halves of an object is beyond puzzling, but that measuring one affects the other in real time redefines our very own scientific realism.

1. The non-local "reality":
Quantum physics has replaced competing Physics paradigms, mainly due to its accuracy and applicability (e.g., quantum computing).

Because quantum physics works, we know the workings of the universe are "non-local" or outside spacetime. This marks an ontological shift.

For most of my life, I thought it rational to think the mind is EXCLUSIVELY a product of the brain.

However, the last year has changed my mind, and now I genuinely think that the mind may exist without the brain. Let me explain my reasons.