Who is going to determine the workings of the mind and brain of human beings? Will it be specialists in the humanities imagining what they think and feel and experience or will it be neuroscientists who make theories and perform experiments on the human brain? Poets (and religious people) like to believe in things like the "spirit" of man as being separate from the chemistry of the brain. What, if anything, corresponds to the spirit I'm confident will be discovered by scientists.

I have more confidence in science to discover what makes us humans than in humanities to do the same thing. However, without useful input from poets, artists, and others it will take longer for scientists to figure it all out, but they'll figure it out eventually. I should warn the supernaturalists among us to not expect their pet religious ideas about the mind or spirit to be validated by science.