In contrast, I described the dubious nature of proposed evidence for dualism based on
communications from the dead, near-death experiences, and parapsychological capacities such as
extrasensory perception. The one serious psychological phenomenon that might seem to require
dualist explanation is consciousness, but we will see in Chapter 5 that neuroscience is beginning to
understand how brains can have conscious experiences. Thought experiments about zombies provide
no impediment to adopting the hypothesis that mental processes are brain process, nor do concerns
with the computational and embodied nature of thinking.