The life of the Spirit in Jesus fulfilled the Law and pointed to the salvation offered in Christ in the days to come. Jesus made this promise to the disciples, “If you love me, you will obey what I command. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever - the Spirit of Truth. You know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him

Likewise, human beings were given spirit at their creation beginning with the first Adam enabling an intimate, direct, personal interaction with the Holy Spirit. However, the spiritual communion was lost at the Fall by Adam’s choice to live to Self and to be like God, knowing good and evil and facing an eternal spiritual death. It is a Fall that has been shared by all of mankind through history. But God’s redemptive purpose for Man in the incarnation was fulfilled by the life, substitutionary death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Jesus came to pay a debt He did not owe because we owed a debt we could not pay. (Greg Laurie)

The Holy Spirit of the Father descended to indwell the human spirit of Jesus Christ at his baptism by John the Baptist. Thus was established a personal, intimate communion between God the Father and his Son, Jesus Christ. As it is cited in John 10:30 Jesus said to his disciples shortly before his arrest, “I and the Father are one.”

The mind of Man was created in the image of the Mind of God with whom an eternal, intimate, personal communion was made possible. But communion was lost by the sin of Adam, and mankind faced eternal spiritual death, eternally devoid of communion with the Holy Spirit. It was by the love and grace of God the Father that mankind has been offered redemption with restoration of communion by the atoning sin sacrifice of Jesus Christ. It was by God’s incarnation in Jesus Christ that mankind has been offered rescue and eternal salvation.

There is recognition in the Christian church that the writing of the Bible was inspired by the Holy Spirit. Since 397 AD the church has considered the canon of the Bible to be complete, and the assumption of many is that the Holy Spirit ceased to communicate directly with people as occurred with the writers of Scripture. To the contrary, I present evidence in my second book, The Boundless Love of God: A Holy Spirit Story, that the Counselor and Helper sent by the glorified and living Jesus Christ continues to interact with the mind of Man through the human spirit. I explain the significance of the torn temple curtain described in Mark 15:38 at the death of Jesus Christ in the ninth hour. It signified the restoration of a direct personal interaction with the Holy Spirit offered as an indwelling to Man by God’s love and grace, and it began with the Apostles at Pentecost.

Alvin Plantinga states that special divine action is compatible with quantum mechanics because it doesn’t determine a specific outcome for a given set of initial conditions. Instead it assigns probabilities to the possible outcomes. Special divine action is not restrained and is therefore free to select via a proposed nonmaterial energy (acting by quantum tunneling in the case of synaptic transmission) certain outcomes according to what William Dembski terms as “small probabilities” with specificity.

From “The Hypothesis” in Nerve Endings of the Soul: Interaction Between the Mind of God and the Mind of Man Through Neural Synaptic Networks:

The Mind of the personal God interacts with the immaterial mind of Man by the atoning grace of God through the living Jesus Christ in our time. His Holy Spirit indwells a receptive, repentant human spirit with the power to interact with the chemical neural synaptic networks of the cerebral cortex, the predominate site for cognition.

I share a statement made by Dietrich Bonhoeffer from The Martyred Christian:

“This is what we mean when we speak of Christ dwelling in our hearts. His life on earth is not finished yet, for he continues to live in the lives of his followers. Indeed, it is wrong to speak of the Christian life: we should speak rather of Christ living in us. I live, and yet no longer I, but Christ liveth in me. (Gal. 2:20). Jesus Christ, incarnate, crucified and glorified, has entered my life and taken charge. To me to live is Christ (Phil. 1:21). And where Christ lives, there the Father also lives, and both Father and Son through the Holy Ghost.”

We have seen that neural codes are linguistic and must be “read” to have meaning and purpose. These codes are magnificent in their design and complexity, and their meaning cannot be reduced to the functional components of the physical brain. The cognitive capacity of an immaterial mind is required to interpret them, to visualize a meaningful scene. It is a progressive, cumulative learning process that is committed to memory, and it begins at birth.

The decoding of a spike train requires an interpolation between the spike train and the continuous stimulus waveforms (including those emanating from a cognitive mind) that induce the spike train through quantum tunneling. The immaterial “observer” of a spike train, the mind, must reconstruct the stimulus, taking the spikes as informational input within neural codes and interpreting the stimulus waveforms with meaning, a process of learning over time.