Mega-thread for help with rebuttals against skeptical talking points

Hmmm...I'm still not sure about the first part. It seems to me that if I play a VR game, the VR equipment is responsible for taking data and presenting the fictional video game world to me. That doesn't mean I am *just* part of the VR equipment, though obviously without me there's no one actual experiencing from that particular headset. But without the VR equipment I also cannot experience the video game.

Regarding the second point, I think you're referring to the Binding Problem? I'm not sure this is completely against the idea of the brain being involved in constructing the daily mundane world? Doesn't the very fact that NDEs happen when the brain is failing to work properly, if at all, suggest that the brain is involved with presenting mundane reality to us?  

It would be hard to see why brains exist at all if they aren't involved with the presenting of our reality during the normal course of life. Perhaps rather than "construction" it might be better to say the brain's function here is that of a reducing valve, narrowing experience so one is not viewing places like Faery and Hell while trying to drive to the grocery store. Then the NDE is consciousness less bound by localization of sensory experience.

I suppose Gallimore could technically be a materialist of sorts, just that his materialism would include Hyperspace Intelligences that created our universe.

My understanding of this is: of course the brain is essential to enable human consciousness to make sense of the physical world of experience, as long as the spirit is inhabiting and interpenetrating the brain in physical life. Just as during physical life visual/hearing fusion in conscious awareness of the world absolutely requires the sensory organs. But the inner faculty of conscious awareness itself is part of the spirit, not the brain, and temporarily during a veridical NDE for instance the soul or spirit detaches from the body and brain and assumes its native existence in a spiritual realm. In this condition the spirit's sensory inputs are vastly greater and are closely related to the esp abilities only marginally manifested while in  body.