I discuss with my guest, Prof. Nicolas Rouleau, Algoma University, Canada his transdisciplinary approach to understand the fundamental nature of cognitive systems.
One of his most interesting researches focuses on the structure of the post-mortem human brain. Functions of the human brain are not assumed to be preserved beyond death and subsequent chemical fixation. Prof. Rouleau and his group present a series of experiments which, together, refute this assumption. Instead, they suggest that chemical preservation of brain structure results in some retained functional capacity. Patterns similar to the living condition were elicited by chemical and electrical probes within coronal and sagittal sections of human temporal lobe structures that had been maintained in ethanol-formalin-acetic acid. So, this raises many questions: what is life, what is consciousness, when is a person dead, are we ever totally dead? We also converse about the nature of electromagnetic fields and subatomic particles like photons.

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