What are we? Are we a soul? An immaterial mind? A flow of energy? A body? A series of neural patterns? Is there an answer to such questions that is compatible both with the hard sciences and with our personal insights? I believe there is, and it is not the one currently defended by neuroscientists (for instance, https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23831830-300-consciousness-how-were-solving-a-mystery-bigger-than-our-minds/). It’s an answer that will overturn the current accepted conceptual landscape in three steps and it is dubbed The Spread Mind (www.thespreadmind.com). Before getting there, let me outline the common ground with neuroscience.

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