I am pleased to share a quote from Samples’ book that confirms the point I make in my books and blogs that our Creator God wants a personal, bidirectional relationship with His human creations. The indwelling Holy Spirit makes this possible.

“The God of the Bible is an infinite and eternal tripersonal Creator while humans are finite and temporal creatures. This Creator-creature distinction means humans can never fully comprehend or exhaustively understand God as God understands himself. Yet those profound limitations don’t mean that humans can’t apprehend God and genuinely know him and enjoy a personal relationship with him.”

Samples states that “John Lennox draws the logical conclusion that science’s dependence on and congruence with abstract mathematics is grounded in God: ‘One of the most powerful evidences, to my mind, that there is an eternal mind behind the universe is first of all, that we can do science, that we can do it in the language of mathematics, that we have language we can use. We can use abstract concepts that are not material to describe things that are physical. All of that points in one direction, and one direction only, and it’s this: In the beginning was the Word, not the particles.’”

Ken Samples addressed the problem of consciousness, noting that “scholars in fields concerned with consciousness must contend with the relationship between consciousness and the brain (known as the mind-body problem). While recognizing the profound complexity of the issue, naturalists have long proposed that it has a natural explanation. Secular neuroscientists believe physical events (brain) cause mental events (mind). According to this widely held view, consciousness is merely a byproduct of the brain (called epiphenomenalism). It is believed that the mind emerged as a caused property of the brain once the brain reached a certain level of evolutionary complexity.” Samples continues to cite comments by Thomas Nagel, philosopher of mind, who “concludes that Darwinian materialism has failed as a comprehensive scientific explanation for conscious reality. Nagel rejects both reductionist and emergent physical explanations for consciousness, stating that ‘consciousness is the most conspicuous obstacle to a comprehensive naturalism that relies only on the resources of physical science.’” I conclude this post with Samples’ comments, “Christian theism and the existence of the biblical God provide a rational explanation for the presence of conscious beings in the universe. Christian philosopher Gregory Ganssle offers a succinct explanation: ‘If God exists, then the primary thing that exists is itself a conscious mind of unlimited power and intellect. This mind has its own first-person perspective, and it can think about things. The notion that such a mind, if it creates anything, would create other conscious minds that have their own first-person perspectives and can think about things is not a great mystery.’ . . . It is more reasonable to conclude that the human mind, personhood, reason, and self-awareness ultimately stem from a source (the mind of God) that possesses all these incredible qualities exponentially.”

I have just finished reading a book by my former colleague at Reasons To Believe (reasons.org), Ken Samples. It is entitled “Christianity Cross-Examined: Is It Rational, Relevant, and Good?” I will be posting selections from his book that relate to points I have made in my books and blogs.

On August 18th at 9 AM PDT I am scheduled to be interviewed by phone for a WebTalkRadio.net podcast, Books on Air. I will have the opportunity in a short edited time of about 15 minutes to direct the discussion to my two books and my website and blogs. I will let you know when and how to access the interview.

Consider that God created the waves that comprise our universe. God transcends His creation but can and does interact within it. To be sure God may have the means to commune with Man apart from all that is known about information transmission, but there is reason to accept the likelihood that He also uses the wave forms He created. Also, consider that the Holy Spirit indwells repentant mankind. As our own minds have the capacity to generate wave forms that pass through our neural networks, so also does the Mind of God via His indwelling Holy Spirit.

I want to identify the focus of my research very concisely. I refer to it as the “wave of the gaps.” I draw upon the phrase “God of the gaps” that has caused such confusion among people over time, a view often expressed by the atheist perspective. Just how does the cognitive, immaterial mind, including the Mind of God, initiate causal interaction with the synaptic networks of the human brain? In my books and blogs I have discussed how wave forms stochastically/probabilistically pass through potential barriers of synaptic components to generate spike trains of action potentials that are encoded and transmitted through neural networks. The “gap” is between the mind of Man/Mind of God and the wave forms that have amplitude, frequency and shape and are now acknowledged to pass through synapses via quantum tunneling. My hypothesis is that the immaterial mind of Man/Mind of God generates these wave forms which interact with synaptic dendrites of neural networks. My ongoing search is to find articles from the neuroscience literature that address the hypothesis, a hard task when so much of the literature accepts materialist reductionism that denies the causality of the immaterial mind. This is an issue I have identified in previous blogs.

Today while driving I found myself behind a bus with an interesting sign on the back. Pictured was an Asian man wearing a team uniform preparing with great concentration to kick a soccer ball. He had had an amputation of his left leg just below his hip joint, and he was balancing his body by holding onto special canes, one on each side, so that he could kick the ball. As I viewed the image on the sign I found it inconceivable that the physical brain could account solely for this action. No, there had to be an immaterial mind that expressed the will and intent to kick the ball and that exerted causal effects on the man’s nervous system to bring it about in the face of such a significant physical hindrance and specific circumstance in time.

In my previous blog post I identified the precise focus of my research over these past twenty years. Just how does the immaterial, cognitive mind exert causal effects on synaptic networks. Synaptic transmission is understood to be electrochemical in nature, and it is now understood that wave forms enter the potential barriers of synapses and pass through via quantum tunneling. Are the wave forms generated by the immaterial mind? I have presented evidence suggesting that this is the case, but my search continues.

While seeking articles from the neuroscience literature that speak directly to the generation of brain waves by the immaterial mind, I am posting summaries of some articles that address applications of brain-computer interface (BCI) technology. ‘Mind-Reading’ Technology Allows Paralyzed Man to Rapidly Text is an article discussed by Amy Norton in WebMD, May 12, 2021.

In this technological application “tiny chips are implanted in movement-related areas of the brain, where they tap into electrical activity in cells. When a person imagines [Italics added] executing a movement, the relevant brain cells start firing. Those electrical signals are then transmitted by wires to a computer, where they are “decoded” by sophisticated algorithms and translated into action, allowing people to control assistive devices with their own mind power.”

The “cells” are neurons, and the electrical activity consists of the spike trains of action potentials generated within and transmitted across the synapses of coherent, synchronized neural networks explained in my blogs. That the signals are “decoded” signifies that the frequencies and amplitudes of the neural impulses are transmitting actualized codes relevant to the specific intended motor action. It is remarkable that it is now possible for neuroscientists to access nerve impulses generated by the imagined objectives of a subject’s mind, by “mind” power according to the author. How the immaterial mind generates the neural impulses is the subject of my research, and in my blogs I have presented evidence suggesting that it is via wave forms transmitted to and through synapses via quantum tunneling.

Researchers at Stanford University asked a man with full-body paralysis to imagine handwriting utilizing BCI technology. This approach allowed him to “churn out text at a rate of roughly 18 words per minute, . . . nearly on par with the typical smartphone user.” Dr. Jaimie Henderson, a co-senior researcher and professor of neurosurgery at Stanford, “implanted two microchips in the man’s motor cortex, an area in the brain’s outermost layer that governs voluntary movement. . . . The microchip had electrodes that sensed the encoded signals from neurons involved in moving the hand. The computer algorithms utilized by the investigators decoded [Italics added] the mental handwriting codes. The curves and speed changes resulting from visualizing handwriting provided a “rich signal” that was relatively easy to decode using their algorithms”.

I trust that you can appreciate the technology that is now available to neuroscientists. It promises to be of great value to handicapped patients who are unable to speak but can still think, imagine and dream! More and more we are seeing evidence for the generation by the immaterial mind of Man of wave forms that interact with the physical brain, a true dualist interaction.

For readers of my blogs who wish to become more familiar with the neuroscience behind dualist interactionism, I am listing the website for my first book which goes into great detail.

https://nerveendingsofthesoul.com

My blog posts will become less frequent since I am looking for articles that convincingly show that the cognitive immaterial mind generates wave forms. To date the data I have shared is strongly suggestive that this is the case. Technology within neuroscience is rapidly advancing, and true brain-to-brain communication is in the offing. The problem to be acknowledged in this literature is commitment to materialist reductionism that disregards the reality of the immaterial mind of Man that is being shown to have causal effects on neural synaptic networks. Cognition is all too often perceived to emanate or emerge only from the physical brain.

I am open to sharing the literature of mental telepathy when I see that it is grounded in good scientific methodology. It bears review since the Mind of God through the Holy Spirit is in communion with our cognitive minds making direct human mind-to-mind communication a reasonable activity for study. In both cases the role of the brain’s synaptic networks as transmitters of specified information from Man or God is key in our space-time.