“eccles defined the self AS AN EXPERIENCED UNITY LINKED BY THE MEMORY OF CONSCIOUS STATES EXPERIENCED OVER AN ENTIRE LIFETIME. FOR THE SELF TO EXIST THERE MUST BE SOME CONTINUITY OF MENTAL EXPERIENCES THAT BRIDGES THE GAP OF UNCONSCIOUSNESS. SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS ACHIEVES PUBLIC STATUS BY SYMBOLIC COMMUNICATION THROUGH LANGUAGE BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS. ECCLES CONSIDERED HOW SPECIFIED PATTERNS OF NEURONAL ACTIVITY IN THE CEREBRAL CORTEX, THE PRINCIPLE SITE FOR COGNITION, CAN EVOKE IN THE MIND WHAT HE CALLED ‘PERCEPTS.’ THE NEURAL SYNAPTIC PROCESS GIVES A CENTRAL ROLE TO THE EXPERIENCED UNITY OF THE SELF. . . . THE SELF-CONSCIOUS MIND INTEGRATES WHAT IT READS OUT PERCEPTUALLY FROM AN IMMENSE DIVERSITY OF ENCODED NEURAL ACTIVITIES TRANSMITTED IN AND THROUGH WHAT HE TERMED THE LIAISON BRAIN. THERE IS DISPLAYED BEFORE THE MIND FROM INSTANT TO INSTANT THE ENTIRETY OF THE COMPLEX NEURAL PROCESSES. THROUGH DIRECTED ATTENTION, INTENTION OR WILL IT SELECTS FROM THIS VAST ENSEMBLE OF ENCODED NEURAL IMPULSES WITHIN THE LIAISON BRAIN. IT COORDINATES AND INTERPRETS IN COHERENT FASHION THE MEANING OF LINGUISTIC CODIFIED READOUTS FROM MANY DIFFERENT AREAS OF THE CEREBRAL CORTEX AND OTHER FUNCTIONALLY ASSOCIATED REGIONS OF THE BRAIN. IN THIS WAY THE SELF-CONSCIOUS MIND ACHIEVES A UNITY OF EXPERIENCE.”
AND WE RECALL THAT THE INDWELLING HOLY SPIRIT IN REPENTANT BELIEVERS ALSO HAS THE POWER TO INTERACT WITH THE SELF, TO PROVIDE ENCOURAGEMENT, DIRECTION, CORRECTION, FULFILLMENT, HOPE AND AN INDENTITY IN JESUS CHRIST.