Mindfulness or Mindlessness?

[Neo-Scholastic]

Are they (1. processes and 2. brain (part of the infrastructure that enables the processing)) real in the same sense?

A: Yes.

...then Parmenides shook Heraclitus's hand and that was the end of Western philosophy....<the end>

Except it didn't happen that way.

You cannot just brush away thousands of years of pondering the relationship between being and change with a one word answer! Expressed in text, it comes off a little arrogant even if you didn't mean it that way. (I have the same problem). Are you perhaps saying that your ontology has only one category of being for both events and matter...and into this category "things" like sensation, meaning, and value reduce. I say that because, physical reduction is very far from proven nor is it obvious enough to be properly basic.

I take Nagel's challenge from "Mind and Cosmos" seriously: "Materialism requires reductionism; therefore the failure of reductionism requires an alternative to materialism."