Errr, help me understand where I'm diverging, here. The way you put "mechanistic" in quotes in your original comment strongly suggests that you doubt the experience can be mechanistically explained. Maybe that wasn't your intent, and this is a boring case of internet miscommunication. But if you do indeed doubt that this could be explained mechanistically, then I don't know how to square that with the fact you're researching this academically—do you intend to just keep drilling further down and zooming further in until you discover The Soul, or something? If so, then you're right that I'm not interested in that kind of "science"—as whereof I cannot speak, thereof I must be silent.