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I know an incredible psychic medium. I have seen him work in lots of places with people he has never met. I have spoken to the people afterwards who cannot understand how he knows so many very intimate details about them. How does he do it? I don't know. But he is always right.

I wouldn't be impressed by a psychic medium telling me a lot of stuff about myself that I know already. The ability to relate these facts wouldn't instantly prompt me to conclude that the medium was receiving his info from stiffs. There could be other explanations like mind reading ability or some kind of intuition. At any rate I'd be more interested in hearing details about life on "The other side."

Do the "passed over" folk still drink cups of tea and watch reality telly? Do they have bowel movements, cut their toenails and pick their noses?

You don't hear this stuff from mediums, any more than they bother to tell you what the point of an afterlife is in the first place. I can understand the obvious wish fulfilment factor for the alive folks of hearing from deceased relatives, as if they had just popped off on holiday and were sending back cheery postcards, but apart from that I don't get it. Why bother to die at all if you're not going to avoid spiritualist mediums, shut the f*** up and stay dead?

And why is that? lol, are you implying that your scientific stance on this somehow phases other people?

If anything i think it is interesting to throw another point of view into the spectrum of discussion, you have a scientific outlook as do others, i dont and others dont as well.

I argue that you may think we are only electrical impulses, i think it is down to personality and soul.

It's not really what I think, its just biological fact. The information in our brain is processed by electrical impulses. How we think, feel, act and what we believe is also based in our brain. So given that, what we percieve as life really is just down to what goes on in our mind. What does stop it, is death.

How dead do you have to be before you are really dead ?

I ask because it's known that people who recieved organs such as hearts and livers etc. from dead people. often take on aspects of the personality of the donor. I remember hearing about a man who'd been given the heart of a person who was a competitive runner, and as soon as he was fit enough he got an inexplicable urge to run. So because that heart was kept alive in a different body doesn't mean that the person who's heart it was..was actually dead at all or completely dead because his spirit was still beating away.

To recieve a an organ, you must be considered clinically brain dead

I read in a scientific journal that the human body contains two brains, the second less developed one just so happens to be in our stomachs and this is where we get our gut instincts from and feel various emotions.

Ananova:

Scientists discover 'second brain' in the stomach

Scientists are claiming to have discovered a second brain - in the human stomach.

The breakthrough, involving experts in the US and Germany, is believed to play a major part in the way people behave.

This 'second brain' is made up of a knot of brain nerves in the digestive tract. It is thought to involve around 100 billion nerve cells - more than held in the spinal cord.

Researchers believe this belly brain may save information on physical reactions to mental processes and give out signals to influence later decisions. It may also be responsible in the creation of reactions such as joy or sadness.

The research is outlined in the latest issue of German science magazine, Geo, in which Professor Wolfgang Prinz, of the Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research in Munich, says the discovery could give a new twist on the old phrase "gut reaction".

He said: "People often follow their gut reactions without even knowing why, its only later that they come up with the logical reason for acting the way they did. But we now believe that there is a lot more to gut feelings than was previously believed."

Professor Prinz thinks the stomach network may be the source for unconscious decisions which the main brain later claims as conscious decisions of its own.

The second brain was rediscovered by Michael Gershorn, of the University of Colombia in New York, after it was forgotten by science. He says it was first documented by a 19th century German neurologist, Leopold Auerbach.

He discovered two layers of nerve cells near a piece of intestine he was dissecting. After putting them under the microscope he found they were part of a complex network.

Recent research has already raised the idea that many reactions may be made in the stomach. Benjamin Libet, of the University of California found the brains of volunteers asked to raise their arms only registered activity about half a second after the movement had been made. He believes his work implies another part of the body may have been involved in making the decision.

I think it's been known for years that men, at least, have two brains, the second of which is situated much lower down!

Dependant on his age much lower than he would like!.So it isnt just a myth then