Transcendent Mind

Young neuroscience and artificial intelligence scientists are beginning to come to similar conclusions about the nature of mind — that it originates from a fundamental informational substrate that is not subject to "local constraints" (as physicists call them) — like place and time. In other words, it's starting to look like our brains are more like cell phones or wireless routers than they are like corded phones or computers tethered by cables. What evidence supports this thinking, and what are the implications (if correct) of this revolution in our understanding of mind?