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 INTORMATION. 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 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 WAVES FORMS ARE ENCODED by the mind WITHIN THEIR 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?