Mindfulness or Mindlessness?

[DLJ]

Then, the question becomes... do we have enough science and technology brain-power here and now (on this forum) to work it out.

I'm up for it if you are.

Well beyond my pay grade.  In any case, electricity and magnetism several centuries ago were viewed as being mysterious, even magical; today, no one thinks of those phenomenon in that way.  In five hundred years, the same may be true of consciousness.

Or longer

After Buddha died, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave—a tremendous, gruesome shadow. God is dead—but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will still be shown.—And we!—We still have to vanquish his shadow, too!