To hold a delusion, it follows that someone must be deluded, at least in part. I respect your belief system but from what you've posted in this thread I have to echo the sentiment; I don't see how this perspective contains any more logic or scientific basis than the belief in God, or a 'Universal Reality' as you term it.
We all perceive something in our own state of being that does not seem to be explainable in terms of objective reality. We are never satisfied that we can be explained or defined merely in terms of electro-chemical equations, even very elaborate ones. There is, we often feel, a connection to something unique to each of us and ultimately more essential than our objective, physical substance. Our Consciousness does not behave as though it were merely a “sum total” of the brain’s sensory and manipulative capacities, combining and recombining inputted information as though it were an “organic” electronic computer. It has a sense of identity, a sense of uniqueness, a sense of distance and differentiation from everything else that exists.
Neuroscience and our Greater Self
Is the mind simply another word for the brain, an organ in the head that fools us into thinking that the self, the “inescapable I,” is a genuine entity? Dr. Egnor explains the materialist view in its several successive historical manifestations, and why, despite its pervasive influence, it hardly qualifies as a serious perspective. Egnor details the findings of his own field, neuroscience. These indicate that
something extra, something immaterial, is joined with the material body to form the complete human being. That something extra is traditionally designated as the soul.
You are more than a physical creature alone. Egnor cites, among other pieces of evidence, a 2006 study in the journal Science reporting that patients in a persistent vegetative state, contrary to how their condition appears clinically, are not all absent as personalities. Even with a severely damaged, shrunken brain, the non-material person is somehow still there, and aware. For example, as functional magnetic resonance imaging shows, many such patients, just like healthy people, can distinguish the sound of meaningful sentences from syntactical gibberish. That should be impossible under materialist assumptions.
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Michael R. Egnor, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery
State University of New York