&gt; <i>Udo, this is an honest, sincere question because I really didn&#x27;t expect this strict of a response to my words from the community</i><p>I pointed it out because I was surprised to see it had been added to the post when we actually had an exchange in order to clarify why it&#x27;s not clear. On a more general note, the honest answer is I challenged your comments since nobody else was doing it, so I didn&#x27;t want to let those claims slide unopposed. There may be a cultural component, too, because I&#x27;m from a culture where supernatural claims are often openly questioned whereas, for example, in the US those beliefs are generally not publicly challenged. I also want to make it clear that it&#x27;s not personal, it&#x27;s only about the subject at hand.<p>&gt; <i>I really didn&#x27;t expect this strict of a response to my words from the community</i><p>It&#x27;s not the community, so please don&#x27;t feel ganged up on. Opposition is mostly coming from me at this point.<p>&gt; <i>How should one approach highly speculative questions like this, scientifically?</i><p>Not presupposing a model of the world that significantly differs from observable reality would be a start. I&#x27;m not saying this to be a dick, it&#x27;s just to address the fact that you are basing your whole argument on a stack of flawed assumptions.<p>&gt; <i>from your perspective, is it possible to even posit this possibility of a non-local consciousness</i><p>It is possible to posit anything, but if you want to make an acceptable factual claim, you&#x27;re going to need some <i>extraordinary</i> evidence to back that up. We&#x27;re talking about evidence that would radically change scientific understanding and would require discarding a large part of all observations made to this day - just to give you an idea of the magnitude. You&#x27;re basically going to have to demonstrate we&#x27;re living in the Matrix.<p>&gt; <i>don&#x27;t you think there is quite a bit more we could still discover?</i><p>I do, but as I said many times in my responses: these discoveries would be about neurobiology.<p>&gt; <i>We obviously don&#x27;t have the experimental evidence yet to say things are this way or that</i><p>We <i>do</i> have a ton of experimental evidence that does not point to any of the supernatural phenomena you&#x27;re talking about. We don&#x27;t have, at this moment, any evidence in support of your hypothesis.<p>&gt; <i>so where does one begin?</i><p>A <i>start</i> would be, when you go on a drug trip next time, bring back some scientific data we can verify that you couldn&#x27;t have gotten otherwise. There are a lot of these you could do while you&#x27;re out there in space, starting from exoplanets, to geological observations about our own solar system, the composition of the galaxy, you name it.<p>&gt; <i>Or is the sort of strict responses that I&#x27;ve received due to my delivery?</i><p>Strict is not the right word, and it&#x27;s not your delivery. It all comes back to your original claim that consciousness is a paranormal phenomenon and that you can take drugs in order to explore the universe. You <i>have</i> to understand this is an extraordinary claim, right? So go out and get us some actual data from your trips, until then, prepare to encounter skeptics.