Dr. Wilder Penfield commented on the mind’s being the person. In my first book, Nerve Endings of the Soul: Interaction Between the Mind of God and the Mind of Man through Neural Synaptic Networks, I share a discussion of the inner person of the Self. This discussion gives validity to the mind’s being not only transcendent of the material brain but also being the ”inner core” that is each individual that survives physical death.
Doctor James Le Fanu has presented a discussion of the “self” that is an excellent lead-in to the work of Eccles. . . . Le Fanu describes the Self as the “inner person” composed of several distinct attributes. These include a unique subjective experience of the world that is the Self’s alone, that the Self is an autonomous agent with freedom to choose [via the will of the cognitive mind], that it is founded upon a rich autobiographical inner record of memory, an accumulated subjective experience extending back to childhood and that it possesses powers of reason and imagination expressed through language extending beyond the boundaries of personal experience. The “self” is non-material with no substance, and it cannot be weighed or measured. Its non-material attributes collectively form the “inner core” [of the mind] that is each unique individual. Self is grounded in the human brain which facilitates its formation through cognition and memory, but it has a coherent, durable, transcendent reality that cannot be explained by ever-changing, transient electrical activity of neuronal circuits.