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Finding Your Way Around Your Brain...
...findings on the brain and its relation to the human mind may be scientifically sound but philosophically defective [Jan. 29]. Scientists like to break a rose, say, down to its atomic and subatomic particles. Likewise, they view consciousness as merely impulses within the brain. While this is sound science, it dismisses other routes to truth and meaning, such as philosophy and theology. The whole is greater than--or at least different from--the sum of its parts...
Mapping the brain and tracing how its different parts interact can offer real hope for people with injuries and disabilities. But I do have one misgiving: I'm not sure I'll ever have the same degree of self-respect now that I know I'm just an illusion created by 100 billion jabbering neurons...
Whether or not Steven Pinker is correct that conscious and unconscious thoughts must be in the brain, the question remains: Where is an idea, an inspiration, an intention before it appears in the brain? It is in the collective consciousness, which our world calls by many names: God, Yahweh, Allah, Source...
...came away from Pinker's article doubting whether we have a soul. If consciousness is just a by-product of electrochemical reactions inside our brain, then where is our soul? Is our soul a separate entity from this collection of tissue and neurons that keeps our body running? Or when our brain dies, are we snuffed out like a candle, and that is the end? The more science discovers about the brain, the more I'm convinced that after our brain dies, we die with...