Ortland shared some interesting comments about Einstein’s perspective on religion. I in turn share some now:

“for einstein, the more one penetrates into an understANDING OF THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE, THE MORE ONE IS LEFT WIH THIS LINGERING SENSE OF SOMETHING ELSE, SOMETHING BEYOND. . . . ONCE, WHEN A LITTLE GIRL ASKED EINSTEIN IF SCIENTISTS PRAY, EINSTEIN INCLUDED WITHIN HIS ANSWER THIS ASSERTION: ‘EVERYONE WHO IS SERIOUSLY INVOLVED IN THE PURSUIT OF SCIENCE BECOMES CONVINCED THAT A SPIRIT IS MANIFEST IN THE LAWS OF THE UNIVERSE - A SPIRIT VASTLY SUPERIOR TO THAT OF MAN, AND ONE IN THE FACE OF WHICH WE WITH OUR MODEST POWERS MUST FEEL HUMBLE.’”

iT IS MY HOPE THAT AS ONE READS MY BLOG POSTS AND BOOKS THAT THIS SOMETHING IS RECOGNIZED AS THE PERSONAL GOD OF THE BIBLE, THE HOLY SPIRIT, WHO THROUGH THE SON, jESUS CHRIST, CREATED ALL THE LAWS OF THE UNIVERSE. HE IS A MAGNIFICENT, ALL-POWERFUL TRIUNE BEING WHO DESIRES A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CROWN OF HIS CREATION, MAN. HE CREATED US SO THAT PERSONAL INTERACTION IS POSSIBLE THROUGH THE SYNAPTIC NETWORKS OF THE HUMAN NERVOUS SYSTEM AND BRAIN.

as research continues concerning the potential application of quantum dots to the study of dual interactionism, i will be posting blogs that deal with the greater topic, understanding our relationship with the personal holy spirit.

gavin ortlund wrote a book entitled why god makes sense in a world that doesn’t: the beauty of christian theism. i am posting selected excerpts from his book that show the reality of god, giving us motivation to know him personally through his indwelling spirit. an objective of my research and writing is to share the reality of a bidirectional interaction with the holy spirit and how that works, at least in part.

“theologian thomas torrance describes scientific progress as accessing rather than surpassing spiritual reality, and he speaks of ‘an ascending gradient of meaning’ in which the spiritual realm is the ultimate animating cause of the material. this vision of the interrelation of the spiritual and physical realms is a classical christian instinct.”

quantum dots are being used productively in the neurosciences. neural cells and their constituents are being labeled with them enabling the identification of disease states and directional tracking within synaptic networks. It is my hope that it will become possible to identify a specific wave form generated by cognition/imagined thought, for example, that can be linked with an identical, or matched, wave form frequency, amplitude and shape within a quantum dot localized at a specific dendritic site where a spike train of action potentials is generated. it would provide strong confirmation of interaction between the immaterial mind and material components of synaptic networks. the precise design of such an experiment is yet to be determined. i have suggested a procedure that will surely require much refinement. i stand to learn and will welcome input from readers going forward. please stand by for future blogs that address this remarkable technology and its applications.

in the book of hebrews are verses which we can better understand as to process from the information presented in my books and in a number of my blogs:

the holy spirit also testifies to us about this. first he says: this is the covenant i will make with them after that time, says the lord. i will put my laws in their hearts, and i will write them on their minds. (heb 10:15-16)

it is my hope that i have presented compelling evidence for dualist interaction between the holy spirit and the human spirit and soul. the holy spirit has the power and will to establish neural codes within the human synaptic networks, manifested as “laws” in the “hearts” and “minds.” Yes, we can communicate directly with the Holy spirit via prayer, and we can also receive communications directly from him in our time, including those within the human conscience.

I am sharing a preview of blogs to come as my research continues. as i indicated in a recent blog post, technology is now becoming available use of which can extend our understanding of mind-brain interactions. specifically on so-called quantum dots! I AM POSTING A quotE from an article by stephen ornes in pnas, march15, 2016 ENTITLED “QUANTUM DOTS:”

“THEY’RE TINY CRYSTALS, GROWN FROM OR ETCHED INTO SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS, WITH DIAMETERS RANGING FROM ONE NANOMETER TO A FEW DOZEN NANOMETERS - ON THE ORDER OF A SMALL VIRUS. WHEN EXCITED BY ELECTRICITY OR LIGHT, A QUANTUM DOT PRODUCES A BRILLIANT, SINGLE-COLOR GLOW.

. . . THEY TYPICALLY CONTAIN RELATIVELY FEW ATOMS, RANGING FROM ABOUT 1000 TO 100,000. THAT MEANS THE CRYSTALS ARE LARGE ENOUGH TO BE USEFUL IN THE LABORATORY, BUT SO SMALL THAT THEY EXHIBIT QUANTUM BEHAVIORS ASSOCIATED WITH INDIVIDUAL ATOMS. THEY’RE A CLASSIC EXAMPLE OF ‘ARTIFICIAL ATOMS”: SEMICONDUCTOR PARTICLES SUFFICIENTLY TINY SUCH THAT CHARGE AND ENERGY LEVELS ARE QUANTIZED. MOVEMENT OF ELECTrONS IS CONFINED IN ALL THREE DIRECTIONS SO TIGHTLY THAT QUANTUM DOTS ARE SAID TO BE ‘ZERO DIMENSIONAL.’ as a result, changing the size of the quantum dot controls how it absorbs and emits energy [in the case of my studies the nonmaterial energy within wave forms believed to be emitted by the immaterial cognitive mind] . . . . biologists are using the flourescece of quantum dots to tag cells of interest within a larger sample; [e.g.the dendritic tufts of lamina I of the cerebral cortex] . . . . quantum dots behave like atoms. . . . [giving investigators] a way to study cells and molecular structures [and their interaction].”

to understand how wave forms interact with synaptic network components we must focus on such small waves at the quantum level since it is quantum mechanics that serves as the “trigger” for synaptic transmission (discussed in previous blogs and in my books). the question that is being addressed is if quantum dots can be used to confirm the transmission of wave forms through the voltage barriers of synapses at specific sites, thereby confirming in turn interaction between the immaterial cognitive mind, including the mind of god/holy spirit, and the material components of synaptic networks. please stay tuned as my new collaborator and i pursue this study.

i highly recommend the book by Jeff cregg, a retired software developer entitled an emergent truth, texas sisters press, LLc, 2022. Though a fictional story, the author shares considerable factual information about artificial intelligence (ai) as considered by reductionist materialists. cregg shares in his story line how scientists with this perspective anticipate seeing ai greATLY exceed human cognitive capacity with the eventual elimination of mysticism, all religions and especially the acceptance of the reality of god. even the SIGNIFICANT lengthening of human life is anticipated by the development of ai. however, toward the end of the book cregg shares comments by a principal in chapter 24 named sam THAT i want to include as a blog post since they mirror so closely perspectives i have offered in my posts as well as in my books. the question addressed in this post is if ai can ultimately express free will and creative thought.

“BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, IT SHOWS THAT A COMPUTER PROGRAM DOES NOT UNDERSTAND INFORMATION THE WAY PEOPLE DO. . . . REMEMBER HOW I SHOWED YOU LAST NIGHT THat RODIN ULTIMATELY THINKS THE WAY It’S BEEN PROGRAMMED TO? . . . THIS DEMONSTRATION GETS TO THE HEART OF WHY WE CAN NEVER PROGRAm a machine to be autonomously creative. it’s because true autonomy is an attribute of an agent who possesses genuine free will. and as far as we know, that kind of agent is only known to exist in a metaphysical sense - it cannot be empirically detected or, for that matter, doesn’t even seem logically coherent. but we all know from our own subjective experiences that human beings are such agents. there is no biological equivalent of a prewritten software program that is stored in, and runs on, the wetware of our brains. no neuroscientist alive can tell you what comprises, or is responsible for, the existence of our conscious selves. every computer programmer knows you can’t reproduce what you cannot define, . . . oh sure, we’ve done an amazing job of simulating aspects of intelligence. as you know, we’ve gotten to the point of fooling the vast majority of people who converse with our machines into believing they’re talking to another person. but in the end, our software doesn’t intuitively understand what a word is or how to use it like our brains do because we don’t have a clue how it’s done. this is part of the hard problem of consciousness; the subjective reality we all experience. it’s hard because no one has any idea how our minds grasp the meanings of things or how experiences invoke emotions that inspire us to write poetry or paint masterpieces. those emotions are essential to give depth and perspective to our existence. . . . we take all of that for granted in our daily lives. but to software developers who think they can duplicate it in a computer, it’s what i’ve known all along - it’s impossible to achieve because we simply have no way to digitally reproduce an immaterial entity like consciousness. whatever we call ai, we will never be able to artificially recreate human consciousness unless we can do two things. first, we must write a practical, non-circular definition of it. and second, we must understand how our physical brains interact with it.”

I add at this point that the focus of my more than 20 years of research has been on understanding just how the synaptic networks of our brain interact with the cognition of the immaterial mind. I have shared in my most recent blog posts how specific immaterial/imagined thoughts can now be detected and interpreted as neural codes! so much of the text of cregg’s book is prescient! by the intelligent design of our creator god the means by which dualist interaction occurs provides for the personal communion we can have with the mind of god via his holy spirit as well as with one another. Whether conscious or not, we experience dualist interaction between the immaterial mind and the material components of the brain’s synaptic networks, a topic addressed in my writings.

The research continues. The prime question I am currently addressing is where and how does an immaterial imagined thought initially interact with the synaptic networks of the brain so that an encoded spike train is transmitted through coherent neural synaptic networks to bring about intended action? This is a most challenging task, but it is exciting that technological advances in the neurosciences is making the asking of this question possible and potentially answerable! I am blessed to have a new associate with the credentials, interest and motivation to assist in addressing this challenging question. Its answer would provide additional compelling evidence for dualist interaction between the immaterial mind of man and God/Holy Spirit and the material components of the synaptic networks of the brain. So, more to come.

In chapter 12 Hunt discusses the kingdom of god within:

“jesus emphasized that the kingdom of god does not come with outward observance, but rather, ‘the kingdom of god is within you’ (luke 17:21). that directs us to the mind, the area where god wants to work. the changes that he brings in our life are secret and inward, but these changes are likely to bear outward fruit. the outward fruit is only a visible symbol inner change.”

it is my prayer that the offerings i have made in my books and blogs have clarified how the holy spirit interacts within us, by the process of dualist interaction between the immaterial mind of god/holy spirit and the immaterial mind/”heart” of man. in examining the synaptic processes within the brain we stand to gain an understanding that (1) the mind of god interacts with us in our time and (2) that god has given us evidence of this bidirectional interaction.

I am posting several excerpts from a wonderful book by T. W. Hunt entitled the mind of christ: the transforming power of thinking his thoughts. I highly recommend this book. If you have been reading my books and blogs I believe you will find these excerpts relevant to the process of dualist interaction I have addressed in my over 23 years of research.

I begin with the following from chapter one:'

“the mind has always been more important to god than our outward actions. in the old testament, the emphasis was on the heart. at times, the bible uses the word heart where we would use the word mind, as in the injunction, ‘apply your heart to discipline’ (Prov. 23: 12). in the new testament, jesus used the word heart in the same sense: ‘and jesus knowing their thoughts said, ‘why are you thinking evil in your hearts?’ . . . . ‘the lord looks at the heart’ (I sam 16:7). in the more restricted emphasis of the new testament, we can say ‘the lord looks at the mind.’”

my research has been focused on the investigation of interaction between the mind of god/jesus christ and the mind of man via the neural synaptic networks of god’s created brain. it is my hope that one has derived a deeper understanding of both the reality of this interaction in our time and its created process through my books and blog posts.

A 5/18/23 article has been presented by William a. haseltine entitled “you can now control a wheelchair with your brain waves alone.” the research work he discussed “used a sensorimotor rhythm-based brain-machine interface to drive an intelligent robotic wheelchair and tested the robotic wheelchairs on three patients who were effectively paralyzed from the neck down. a sensorimotor rhythm brain-machine interface is based on the electrical signals that are emitted from the brain when people think [bold type added in each case, here and below] about moving parts of their bodies. in this study, when the patients thought about moving both hands, the wheelchair would turn left. if they thought about moving both of their feet, the wheelchair would turn right. to move forwards, the participants would have to think of both commands at the same time. . . . during their training, patients were seated in a customized wheelchair and were asked to think about moving their hands or their feet. if their brain sensorimotor signals were properly decoded, these thoughts would cause a steering wheel in front of them to rotate to the left or to the right.”

i must add a word of caution. the researchers were at risk of attributing the thinking and all the monitored thoughts to the brain itself, discounting the role of the immaterial mind. Mortimer adler is quoted in my books as stating, and i paraphrase, that we need our brains to think, but we do not think with our brains! no, we think with our immaterial cognitive minds which generate wave forms which interact with the synaptic networks where they are linguistically encoded and transmitted through neural synaptic networks via spike trains of action potentials. in my books and blogs, i have discussed in detail the “how” of this process as it is presently understood.