my research has extended over more than 25 years, and i have been able to present three findings. First, i have presented compelling evidence for dualist interactionism, drawing upon my initial study of sir john c. eccles’ work for which he received the nobel prize. he described the “microsite” as a fundamental entity for the synaptic transmission of action potentials, a process triggered by the quantum tunneling of wave forms across potential barriers. the microsite is the focus that enables interaction between the immaterial mind and the material components of the neural synaptic networks. in my writings i have presented considerable detail about this process, and selected excerpts will be posted. second, i have posited how cognitive intent of the mind generates wave forms that act on apical dendritic tufts of the pyramidal columns of the neocortex. these wave forms are matched with specific wave activity within modules generating synchronous waves that transmit encoded specified information through coherent synaptic networks to effect intended actions. third, eccles and his associates failed to convincingly identify how the triggering of quantum tunneling occurs. i have presented evidence from current neuroscience that the “psychons” named by eccles most likely correspond with wave forms having specific amplitudes, frequencies and shapes that are generated by eccles’ “self-conscious self,” the immaterial cognitive mind of a person. i posit that these wave forms match with modular wave forms through an initial interaction with apical dendritic tufts. the waves are in synchrony and are transmitted through potential barriers of presynaptic terminals via quantum tunneling with the release of synaptic transmitters across synaptic clefts. this process accounts for the generation and transmission of encoded action potentials that causally effect actions such as speech and movement. it is a process that actualizes specified information originating in the mind of man as well as in the mind of god.

the purpose of my research has been to show that bidirectional interaction still occurs between the mind of god and that of man in our time. we are learning how this process occurs drawing upon concordance between neuroscience and biblical scripture. yes, we pray to god, but by god’s plan from the creation of adam he has desired a personal communion with man that is directed from god, his holy spirit, to the mind of man. it is a communion restored by the sin sacrifice of jesus christ who, resurrected, sent as he promised his disciples the holy spirit to indwell repentant believers so that this communion, lost at the fall, is restored.

i shall present selected blog posts from my website addressing specific processes that describe how minds are in a bidirectional communion between human beings and between god’s indwelling holy spirit. in lieu of writing a book, i shall post selected blogs to give the reader a comprehensive record of these presentations. i have entitled this record “minds in communion.” the mind, will and emotion comprise man’s soul which is immaterial, as is the human spirit. god, who is spirit, created the synaptic networks of the human brain to enable this personal, intimate communion between minds. it is a dualist interaction between the immaterial and the material. i offer that wave forms emanating from the cognitive mind of man are being found central to this process.

i asked the question on google, “Do john eccles’ psychons correspond with wave forms?” my reply was, “yes, john eccles’ ‘psychons’ explicitly correspond with wave forms, specifically in the context of quantum probability fields and wave functions.”

in my last blog posts i have posited a matching between wave forms generated by the immaterial cognitive mind and pyramidal column wave forms. eccles posited that columns act as “detectors” of waves having matching frequencies, amplitudes and shapes so that synchrony can be incorporated in the transmission of encoded action potentials along synaptic networks to effect action. exocytosis is triggered by the quantum tunneling of matched wave forms through components of pre-synaptic ion channels and synaptic vesicles with the release of neural transmitters that act on post-synaptic terminals. eccles and his associate friedrich beck did not identify this specific step that gives evidence for dualist interaction between the immaterial mind and the brain. it is posited that this interaction is initiated through pyramidal apical dendritic tufts in the neocortex, as discussed in a previous blog.

from the dualist interactionist perspective the physical brain is not the creator of the IMMATERIAL mind. it is ITS INSTRUMENT, TERMINAL, OR “LIAISON” ACCORDING TO PROF. JOHN C. ECCLES. A MAJOR QUESTION WAS, AND IS, HOW DOES AN IMMATERIAL ENTITY EXERT A CAUSAL INFLUENCE ON PHYSICAL MATTER WITHOUT VIOLATING THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS? THIS QUESTION IS IMPORTANT TO THE PERSPECTIVE I HAVE ADDRESSED THROUGHOUT MY BOOKS AND BLOG POSTS THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT INTERACTS WITH THE IMMATERIAL MIND AND SOUL OF MAN THROUGH THE MATERIAL COMPONENTS OF THE NEURAL SYNAPTIC NETWORK. IT IS ULTIMATELY A “HOW” QUESTION AS TO THE MECHANISM. LET US ADDRESS FURTHER THE PERSPECTIVE OFFERED BY ECCLES AND HIS ASSOCIATE, THE PHYSICIST FRIEDRICH BECK, AND IN SO DOING WE SHALL SEE the “HOW” QUESTION THAT WENT UNANSWERED BY THEM. IT IS A QUESTION I HAVE ENDEAVORED TO ADDRESS THROUGH MY RESEARCH EXTENDING WELL OVER 25 YEARS.

ECCLES ARGUED THAT THE MAMMALIAN CORTEX IS ORGANIZED INTO PHYSICAL ANATOMICAL UNITS HE CALLED DENDRONS (I HAVE REFERRED TO THEM AS pyramidal MODULES IN MY MOST RECENT BLOGS AND IN MY BOOKS). HE POSITED THAT THE IMMATERIAL MIND IS COMPOSED OF MATCHING, NON-PHYSICAL UNITS OF CONSCIOUS EXPERIENCE HE CALLED PSYCHONS. (i HAVE WRITTEN EXTENSIVELY ABOUT THE POSSIBLE IDENTIFICATION OF THESE ENTITIES AS WAVE FORMS WITH AMPLITUDE, FREQUENCY AND SHAPE. MY CHALLENGE HAS BEEN TO IDENTIFY NEUROSCIENTIFIC WORK THAT CONFIRMS THIS IDENTITY. IN MY MORE RECENT BLOGS DEAling with brain computer interfaces, among other topics, I HAVE PRESENTED INCREASING EVIDENCE THAT THIS could be AN ACCURATE ASSESSMENT.)

instead of the mind “pushing” on neurons with physiCAL ENERGY ECCLES PROPOSED THAT PSYCHONS OPERATE VIA QUANTUM PROBABILITY. WHEN ONE CHOOSES TO THINK OR MOVE, THE IMMaterial mind alters the quantum probability of neurotransmitter release (exocytosis) at thousANDS OF SYNAPSES SIMULTANEOUSLY THROUGH QUANTUM TUNNELING. BECAUSE THE PROCESS OPERATES PURELY BY SHIFTING QUANTUM PROBABILITIES, IT TECHNICALLY OBEYS THE LAW OF CONSERVATION OF ENERGY. THE MIND INTRODUCES “TOP-DOWN” INFORMATIONAL INTENT THAT SYNCHRONIZES WITH CORTICAL MODULES HAVING MATCHED AMPLITUDES, FREQUENCIES AND SHAPES SO THAT ENCODED ACTION POTENTIALS ARE GENERATED TO TRANSMIT SPECIFIED INFORMATION TO EFFECT ACTION. BUT THE QUESTION IS HOW DOES THE INFORMATION GET TRANSMITTED VIA QUANTUM TUNNELING?

LET US EXAMINE FURTHER ECCLES’ HYPOTHESIS. HE ARGUED THAT A NONPHYSICAL SELF-CONSCIOUS MIND SELECTS, INTERPRETS, AND UNIFIES ACTIVITY IN A CORTICAL “LIAISON BRAIN.” IN MY WRITINGS I HAVE IDENTIFIED THE LIAISON brain AS NEURAL CODES ARCHIVED OVER A LIFETIME WITHIN THE BRAIN, SUCH AS in THE SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA. THE SELF IS A REAL, NON-PHYSICAL DOMAIN THAT BOTH RECEIVES FROM AND ACTS UPON THE BRAIN, AND THE PHYSICAL WORLD IS THEREFORE NOT CAUSALLY CLOSED. THE NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL MECHANISM PROPOSED BY ECCLES IS THAT THE SELF-CONSCIOUS MIND ACTIVELY SCANS AND READS OUT FROM SPECIALIZED CORTICAL MODULES TO TRANSMIT SYNCHRONIZED ACTION POTENTIALS ENCODED WITH SPECIFIED INfORMATION. INTERACTION BETWEEN THE SELF-CONSCIOUS MIND AND THE CEREBRAL CORTical MODULES OCCURS IN “LIAISON AREAS,” THE OPEN MODULES OF THE HEMISPHERE. UNITY OF MEANING AND PURPOSE WITHIN THE INFORMATION IS IMPOSED BY THE SELF-CONSCIOUS MIND RATHER THAN PRODUCED BY NEURAL INTEGRATION, AND THE UNITY IS ESTABLISHED THROUGH SYNCHRONIZED WAVE FORMS BETWEEN THE cognitive MIND AND THE WAVE FORMS MAINTAINED WITHIN PYRAMIDAL MODULES OF THE CORTEX which serve as “detectors.”

HEREIN LIES THE UNANSWERED QUESTION. CRITICS HAVE STATED THAT THE HYPOTHESIS EITHER SMUGGLES IN CAUSATION WITHOUT A LAW TO GOVERN IT OR LEAVES UNEXPLAINED WHAT A PROBABILITY-ALTERING NON-PHYSICAL AGENT COULD BE. THE CENTRAL WEAKNESS IS THAT THE SELF-CONSCIOUS MIND WHOSE POWERS OF SELECTION, INTEGRATION, PHENOMENAL REALIZATION, AND CAUSAL INTERVENTION REQUIREs EXPLANATION. ECCLES AND BECK DID NOT EXPLAIN HOW THE MIND PERFORMS THAT WORK. ALTHOUGH ECCLES’ QUANTUM HYPOTHESIS PROPOSED A MICROSCOPIC LOCUS FOR THE INTERACTION, IT DID LITTLE tO ADDRESS OR SOLVE THIS EXPLANATORY PROBLEM.

I HAVE ENDEAVORED TO PRESENT COMPELLING EVIDENCE FROM MORE CURRENT NEUROSCIENTIFIC WORK FOR THE ROLE OF WAVE FORMS IN THE TRANSMISSION OF INFORMATION THROUGH SYNAPSES VIA QUANTUM TUNNELING RESULTING IN PROTEIN STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS and electron transfers WITHIN IONIC CHANNELS AND COMPONENTS OF SYNAPTIC VESICLES TO EFFECT exocytosis and THE TRANSMISSION OF ENCODED ACTION POTENTIALS THROUGH SYNAPTIC NETWORKS. THE IMPORTANCE OF SYNCHRONY BETWEEN WAVE FORMS GENERATED BY THE IMMATERIAL MIND AND THOSE ARCHIVED WITHIN CEREBRAL PYRAMIDAL MODULES as “detectors” IS CRUCIAL TO THIS EXPLANATION. THE WAVE FORMS ARE ENCODED by the mind WITH FREQUENCIES, AMPLITUDES AND SHAPES WITH MEANING AND PURPOSE TO EFFECT INTENDED ACTIONS.

ARE WE BEGINNING TO UNDERSTAND, AT LEAST IN PART, HOW OUR CREATOR GOD DESIGNED OUR BRAINS TO ENABLE A BIDIRECTIONAL COMMUNION BETWEEN HIM AND HIS BELIEVERS, LOST AT THE FALL BUT RESTORED BY THE SIN SACRIFICE and resurrection OF HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, JESUS CHRIST, WHO LIVES?

i am sharing excerpts from an article by alin cucu entitled “turning the tables: how neuroscience supports interactive dualism.” the author begins his article with the statement, “physicalists typically believe that neurophysiology HaS REFUTED THE THESIS THAT NON-PHYSICAL MINDS CAN INTERACT WITH THE BRAIN. IN THIS PAPER, I ARGUE THAT IT IS PRECISELY A CLOSER LOOK AT THE NEUROPHYSIOLOGY OF VOLITIONAL ACTIONS THAT SUGGESTS OTHERWISE. . . . A THEORY THAT DEFINITELY PREDICTS SUCH A CAUSAL CONTRIBUTION OF THE MIND IS INTERACTIVE DUALISM, WHERE THE NON-PHYSICAL MIND IS CONSTRUED IN TERMS OF EITHER MENTAL PROPERTIES, OR A MENTAL SUBSTANCE. . . . THE AUTHOR FAIRLY IDENTIFIES “ONE BIG DIVIDE BETWEEN . . . VIEWS . . . THAT SEEK TO MAKE INTERACTION ENERY-CONSERVING . . . AND ACCOUNTS THAT ACCEPT ENERGY NON-CONSERVATION.” THE AUTHOR SUBSCRIBES TO THE ENERGY NON-CONSERVATION VIEW, BUT HE GIVES COMPELLING SUPPORT TO INTERACTIVE DUALISM. CONTINUING, CUCU STATES, “FIRST, IT IS IMPORTANT TO MAKE CLEAR WHAT I UNDERSTAND BY ‘VOLITIONAL (OR VOLUNTARY) ACTION’. I USE THE TERM HERE IN THE NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL SENSE, WHERE IT REFERS TO THOSE BODY MOVEMENTS THAT THE SUBJECT REPORTS TO HAVE ‘WILLED’ AND WHICH OCCUR INDEPENDENTLY OF EXTERNAL STIMULI. . . . THE CANONICAL FORM OF VOLUNTARY ACTION IS SELF-INITIATED ACTION . . . WHICH WE DEFINE AS VOLUNTARY ACTION INITIATED WITHOUT ANY SENSORY CUE. . . . A VOLITIONAL ACTION IS AN ACTION BROUGHT ABOUT ‘CONSCIOUSLY’ OR ‘INTENTIONALLY’ AS OPPOSED TO REFLEXIVELY . . . BECAUSE IT EXCLUSIVELY CONSIDERS THE CAUSAL CONTRIBUTION OF THE AGENT. . . . THE NEUROBIOLOGICAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EXTERNALLY TRIGGERED AND ‘PURE’ VOLITIONAL ACTIONS IS FURTHER BUTTRESSED BY EXPERIMENTS SHOWING THAT AN ACTIVITY INCREASE IN THE SMA [SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA] TAKES PLACE DURING THE MENTAL EXERCISE OF MOTOR ACTIONS [I HAVE DISCUSSED THIS ACTIVITY IN MY BOOKS]. . . . DUALISTS CAN AND SHOULD [STATE] THAT INTERACTIONS ARE ARGUABLY VERY ‘GENTLE’, I.E. THEY DON’T MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE TO HOW THINGS WOULD HAVE BEEN WITHOUT THEM. . . . INTERACTIONS THUS DO NOT HAVE TO MOVE BIOLOGICAL STRUCTURES FROM A STATE OF COMPLETE REST BUT RATHER SLIGHTLY ALTER THE TRAJECTORIES OF SYSTEMS ALREADY IN MOTION” [AS HAS BEEN DISCUSSED IN A PREVIOUS BLOG]. “IT COULD BE THAT AT LEAST SOME BRAIN EVENTS REQUIRE A NON-PHYSICAL EXPLANATION, IN WHICH CASE INTERACTIVE DUALISM . . . WOULD BE TRUE.”

THE MAIN OBJECTIVE OF MY RESEARCH FOR OVER 25 YEARS HAS BEEN TO FIND AND PRESENT COMPELLING EVIDENCE FOR DUALIST INTERACTIONISM, HOW AN IMMATERIAL MIND, INCLUDING THE MIND OF GOD/HIS HOLY SPIRIT, INTERACTS IN A CAUSAL MANNER WITH THE MATERIAL COMPONENTS OF THE BRAIN’S NEURAL SYNAPTIC NETWORKS. I HAVE ALSO IDENTIFIED WHERE AN INTENTION OF THE COGNITIVE MIND INITIALLY ACTS ON THE APICAL DENDRITIC TUFTS OF PYRAMIDAL CELL COLUMNS SO THAT SYNCHRONOUS WAVE FORMS ARE MATCHED AND BY THE ACTION OF QUANTUM TUNNELING STIMULATE THE TRANSMISSION OF ENCODED ACTION POTENTIAL ACROSS THE SYNAPSES OF NEURAL SYNAPTIC NETWORKS WITH INTENDED ACTIONS. THIS SYSTEM OF INFORMATION TRANSMISSION CREATED BY GOD HAS MADE POSSIBLE A BIDIRECTIONAL COMMUNION WITH OUR CREATOR, HIS SON JESUS CHRIST AND HIS HOLY SPIRIT.

the theory of dualist interactionism was proposed by the nobel-prize winning neurophysiologist sir john eccles in association with the philosopher karl popper. their theory explained how a non-physical mind can influence a physical body, how an immaterial mind can influence in a causal sense a material neural synaptic network.

eccles sought to locate a precise physical interface where the immaterial mind could exert top-down control over neural architecture without violating the laws of thermodynamics.

pyramidal cells are the primary excitatory neurons found in the mammalian cerebral cortex. they act as the principal “output” channels of the cortex. pyramidal cells feature a long, prominent branch called the apical dendrite that travels toward the outermost layer of the cortex, layer 1, where it branches out into an apical dendritic tuft. the apical dendrites cluster tightly in bundles of about 70-100, constituting a pyramidal module. eccles considered the module as the fundamental functional unit of the cortex. he hypothesized that the immaterial mind generates non-material units, or wave forms, with specific amplitudes and frequencies corresponding to the wave forms of a synchronous, module referred to as a “detector.” when one has an intention, thought or desire these wave forms act to stimulate encoded action potentials that transmit complex specified information with anticipated outcomes or actions through modular dendrites, somata and axons.

eccles proposed that the mind’s intention does not forcefully “fire” a neuron. instead, the immaterial mind’s wave forms subtly alter the quantum probability of neurotransmitter release (exocytosis) at the vesicular level in the synapses of the apical tufts. he and physicist friedrich beck proposed that mental intention triggers a quantum tunneling effect which slightly alters the probability of a single synaptic vesicle to release its neurotransmitters across the synapse to an apical dendrite, stimulating thereby an action potential in the receptor neuron. this process uses quantum indeterminacy so that the law of thermodynamics is not violated.

in my books and blog posts i have discussed this process in great detail. with the aid of AI i have identified a precise locus in cerebral modules where the causal effects of an immaterial mind act on synaptic networks. this is a rapidly developing area of investigation in the neurosciences, reflecting the technological advances being made to reveal the mechanisms of dual interaction.

in my next blog post i shall refer to the concepts of sir john c. eccles that describe dualist interactionism. we shall see the importance he gave to apical dendritic tufts. i am highlighting this information for the following reason. in my books and blogs i have endeavored to present compelling evidence for dual interaction between the immaterial minds of man and god/his holy spirit as mediated by the neural synaptic networks of the human brain. i have also identified the role of wave forms in the transmission of encoded information within action potentials through neural synapses triggered by quantum tunneling. in these most current blogs i am sharing evidence for where the wave forms of cognition and intent first interact in the brain, a dual interaction. in previous blog posts i have described how, at least in part, the transmission of wave forms occurs across neural synapses. it is a complex and elaborate process created by god to enable personal communion not only between humans but also with the holy spirit. since the creation of man god has intended to have personal bidirectional communion with us.

my response continued:

“cognitive intention - such as top-down attention, or goal-directed imagery - initially stimulates the apical dendritic tufts of pyramidal cells. in the structural hierarchy of the cerebral cortex, these apical tufts terminate in layer 1. . . they function as the primary target for feedback (top-down) signals coming from higher-order cognitive, associative, and motor cortical regions. . . . apical dendritic tufts (top-down): receive feedback representing internal states, including cognitive intentions, behavioral context, predictions, and focused attention. . . . in short, your brain uses the apical dendritic tufts as an entry point for your thoughts, intentions, and focus to actively shape how you perceive and process the physical world. . . . the detector function of cortical pyramidal modules and the integrative properties of apical dendritic tufts are fully compatible, forming a cooperative two-stage computational unit that bridges local processing with global context. . . . pyramidal modules coordinate columns by aligning their superficial tufts within layer 1, allowing synchronous top-down modulatory streams to modulate entire assemblies of vertically stacked cell columns simultaneously.”

i asked if dendritic tufts of level 1 pyramidal cells interact with wave forms generated by the cognitive mind, and the strong answer i received (via AI analysis) was “yes.” it was stated that “these delicate, tree-like structures at the top of pyramidal neurons [in the superficial layer of the brain] serve as “the main cellular engine driving and interpreting those waves.” the analysis went on to state, “instead of being passive wires, apical dendritic tufts act as ‘coincidence detectors’ and rhythmic filters. they continuously match top-down cognitive context (expectations, memory, attention) with bottom-up sensory wave forms.”

(more to come)

the following discussion outlines how the brain processes top-down attention and context, drawn from the national institutes of health (NIH). i have presented information in previous blogs that suggest that cortical pyramidal tracts, or columns, may serve as “detectors” of incoming top-down encoded waves generated by the immaterial cognitive mind. it is a most complex process that will be discussed in part in the following material:

pyramidal neurons (the primary computational units of the cerebral cortex) extend long dendrites straight up into layer 1, the most superficial layer of the brain. these ends branch out into “apical tufts.” layer 1 does not primarily receive raw sensory data (which enters at lower levels). Instead, it receives long-range feedback, expectation, and contextual data from other brain regions. when feedback hits these apical tufts simultaneously with raw sensory data hitting the base of the cell, it triggers a massive electrical event (a dendritic calcium spike). this “amplifies” the signal, which many neuroscientists believe is the literal cellular mechanism that brings a stimulus into conscious awareness.

if viewed through the lens of dualism (the philosophy that the mind and body are distinct, separate substances), a mechanism is described for how an immaterial entity interacts with physical matter. i have posted blogs that describe the “microsite hypothesis” of john eccles by which the immaterial mind exerts a quantum mechanical “trigger” that alters the probability of neurotransmitter release at synapses. eccles pointed directly to the synaptic networks of layer 1 as the precise interface where the psyche interacts with the brain. the neural networks of the pyramidal columns sit in a receptive, unbiased state of frequency equilibria until a synchronous wave frequency of mental intent biases their activation, shifting options into physical action of perception.

categorizing this interaction as “level 1 personal” suggests a framework of subjective hierarchy. it implies the initial, fundamental boundary where a raw, unconditioned subjective observer (“the person”) translates intent into the very first tier of physiological manifestation. by interacting at the top of the dendritic tree (the apical tufts), the mind wouldn’t need to force individual neurons to fire blindly. instead, it gently shifts the context or resonance of the network, guiding existing neural patterns rather than overriding them forcefully.

i have posted these discussions based on AI-drived data from the NIH to confirm interaction between the immaterial cognitive mind and the neural networks of the pyramidal columns of the cerebral cortex. it shows how intent initially interacts with the apical dendritic tufts of level 1 pyramidal cells, giving confirmation to aspects of eccles’ microsite hypothesis that describe pyramidal columns of the neocortex as “detectors” that are matched with synchronous top-down wave frequencies to effect actions and perceptions. complex indeed, showing the majesty and power of the biblical god who created the human mind and brain for communion with the holy spirit through the neural synaptic networks.

My research continues, and i shall be posting findings especially concerning dual interaction between the immaterial mind and material components of the human brain. recent articles i have reviewed consider activity of apical dendrites of level one pyramidal cells of the neocortex and their potential interaction with the cognitive mind.