The issue focused on the possible role of "irritation" in the study, and in particular, the study's study of the experience of being (in a particular state) "in the body" in the future.

Fichter and his co-author, University of California, San Francisco, neuropsychologist Adil R. Gokcen, were able to give a better idea of the mind-body experience.

"The mind-body experience is a second-order experience