Mind was the last thing to come into existence

To start with, I would like to state here that no physical science has yet been able to either describe or predict mental activity. Research in the field of cognitive neuroscience has suggested there are "causal relations" between neural activity of the brain and "conscious experience". But it has not yet been able to describe which is the cause and which is the effect. The common notion is that neural activity is responsible for "conscious experience". But in absence of precise description as to which is the minimal set of neural activity that is responsible for consciousness, the notion could be a fallacy. On the other had it could be that a mind, which is free from all physical laws understood till date is the cause of neural activity of the brain. Further to that I would like to state that there are higher-levels of consciousness than ordinary waking state. Sean O' Nuallain in his book "Zero-Power and Selflessness", in which he has done studies on the meditating mind, has stated that meditators often describe selfless states as well as higher states of consciousness than ordinary waking state. My opponent can reject that on the ground that these are subjective experiences and cannot be treated as empirical proof of existence of such states of consciousness. But I want to make it clear that in absence of any flawless method to measure consciousness objectively, we are not left with any option but to rely on subjective experience. When mind reaches the highest states of consciousness it could behave like a force, subtler than all physical forces known today, which requires no energy and yet has the ability to control other physical forces. To support my claim I am giving an example of a very common experiment, which is used to describe wave-particle duality of electrons. But here I will try to support my claim using the same experiment. In this experiment, electrons are fired through two holes and their arrival on the other side is recorded on a screen. The special feature of this screen is that each electron makes a spot of light on the screen, and the spot stays there as other electrons arrive, each making its own spot, so that gradually they build up a pattern on the screen. But as thousands of electrons are fired through the experiment one at a time, the pattern that builds up on the screen is the classic interference pattern associated with waves. Not only are the electrons leaving and arriving as particles, but somehow travelling as waves, but they seem to "know" the past and the future as well. If thousands of electrons travelled together through the experiment, it might be easy to understand that they could jostle one another into an interference pattern. But only one electron passes through the experiment at a time, and somehow chooses its place on the screen on the other side so that the pattern that gradually builds up is the classic interference pattern. How can each electron possibly "know" its rightful place in the pattern? If one of the two holes is blocked off, the electrons form one blob of spots on the screen behind the remaining hole. With the other hole open and the first one closed, you get a blob on the screen behind that hole. But with both holes open, the interference pattern emerges, with the brightest part of the pattern on the line midway between the holes. An individual electron, passing through just one hole in the experiment, seems to be AWARE whether or not the second hole is covered up, and to adjust its trajectory accordingly. Is there a mind behind it? I think it could be. With no other satisfactory explanation, I bet, mind is the best candidate here. Lastly, there is no proof that we don't have a free-will. My opponent joined this debate willingly, and that is certainly a proof of "free-will". If my opponent thinks otherwise, that he did not join the debate by his own will, then he only can answer what compelling circumstances compelled him to join in.