Material science in its avantgarde form quantum physics is making serious progress on what in the science community is called "The big problem of consciousness". (The spiritual understanding is that consciousness is the symptom of the soul, what we really are.) This article is particularly interesting since Sir Roger Penrose is a well respected, famous and prized professor emeritus at the Oxford University, and since the article was originally published at the British mainsteream media newspaper The Express.
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Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics
By Sean Martin
The possibility of life after death is one of the greatest mysteries of humanity, but now experts are claiming that there is no death of consciousness – just death of the body.