@saint What if

My own experiences tell me that consciousness is more of a ‘field’ that we tap into through our hearts and brains, but once they quit functioning, the field is still there and we also remain a part of it, just as we did when the brain was functioning and the heart was pumping blood. The physical body and its experiences are our challenge, and also how we experience and add to the ‘body’ of knowledge and experience of the Field of Consciousness.

Fun article.

Taking oral dmt while engaged in Buddhist practice taught me a lot about how conscious experience is formed. At least experientially.

What’s going on in the nervous system I’m no expert on. But it’s more than brain chemistry. Without the rest of the nervous system, including the second and third minds (the heart and gut are packed with nerves, and “mind” in Buddhism should be translated as heart/mind), we’d just be a brain in a box.