in my next blog posts i will address again how it is becoming increasingly apparent that the immaterial human mind generates waves, or wave forms, that reflect the content of thoughts, interacting with neurally encoded specified information in spike trains of action potentials to accomplish desired actions. jeffrey winters is the author of an article entitled “communicating by brain waves,” last reviewed june 9, 2016. in posts that follow i will cite additional articles that consider this topic.
“neurologists call patients who are totally paralyzed ‘locked-in,’ and diagnoses of lou gehrig’s disease or a brain-stem stroke are among the most feared of all neurological disorders. . . . such a life is thought to be unbearable.
“but a german neuroscientist has found a way to give voice to 11 patients around the world with a device that converts mental activity into computer commands. . . . niels birbaumer, ph.d., of the university of tubingen calls his machine a thought translation device, or ttd. it is attuned to a low-frequency brain wave called the slow cortical potential, which people can produce at will. by controlling their thoughts, patients can answer yes-or-no questions, spell out sentences or even surf the internet.”
“no one . . . had communicated via brain waves in a real-world environment. . . . a slow cortical potential is a type of electrical activity in the cortex, the outer part of the brain. . . . SCp’s [slow cortical potentials] are produced when the brain is engaged in a spectrum of mental activities. . . . building a communications device for a person with a severe paralysis meant tapping directly into [cognitive] mental function.”
as this topic is addressed consider also how the immaterial mind of god through his indwelling holy spirit may well interact with the synaptic networks of our material brains in similar, or like, fashion. it is a dualist interaction by which the holy spirit communes with us in our time.