I may be wrong that minds are brains. Perhaps I will be amazed after my final, fatal heart attack to
discover that I can still think without my body, and will realize that this whole book has been a
mistake. Less drastically, new evidence may arise in the form of many well-controlled experiments
concerning communications from the dead or paranormal powers that cannot be explained by any
hypothesis assuming that only matter and energy exist. Then the Brain Revolution that overturns our
dualist conceptual scheme would not need to proceed, and people would be able to feel secure in
their view that there is more to us than our bodies. Religion and commonsense dualism could
legitimately survive. We would not have to give up the highly appealing conceptual scheme that offers
us immortality, a caring God, free will, and our experienced centrality to the universe.