To have a separate and conscious self (which is what a sentient life form is) requires an impulse wholly beyond the physical world, emotional world and mental world. We make a very big mistake when we equate our identity and life-force with the mind or any of its functions, including feeling or actions by the body. In fact, this is the biggest lie of all! No one truly knows who they are because “consciousness” is not of the mind; conscious life-force comes from somewhere else (subject matter for another day). This life-force is embedded and pervades the entire sentient organism; the human being is the apex of life that we are currently aware of. When death supervenes it is clear that the life-force leaves both the body and mind…that is why the human frame, including the brain, begins to putrify after a day or two. It is the consciousness that provided the cohesion for all the separate elements and, through percolation throughout the body, enlivens every cell, etc. The great nemesis is that there is no methodology which exists in empirical science that will ever be able to detect or measure consciousness. Science can only measure “effects” in the form of electro-chemical signals, as they travel via neurons and the nervous system. To actually engage in a scientific investigation to find the source of one’s consciousness requires an internal science, a means to penetrate the brain internally with one’s own awareness. Please see: http://www.masterpath.org Thanks alot.