Reply #137: I have already answered this

[cyborg_jim]

How do they know that activity precedes thought? ... All of the electrical firings have to go on in order to be able to verbalize the thought. That doesn't prove that the thought itself didn't come first.

In your view of things then the immaterial mind is doubly redundant.

We know that when we perform conscious activities such as deciding which keys to type that the messages sent to our hands are already on their way by the time our consciousness 'catches-up' to this decision.

What you are now telling us is that the brain experiences the experience of thought, with the thought preceding both the experience of thought and the thought influencing the necessary mechanisms in the brain that lead to the experience of the experience of the thought without directly doing so. You sure do want to complicate matters with your insistence there's some weird immaterial mind doing all this stuff!