While studying neuroscience at university we were essentially told that the concept of the mind being something seperate to the brain was some ridiculous, outdated idea. They had to bring it up since it’s an idea that people had all most likely heard of, or someone willing to think outside the constraints of what they are taught might think about, and so they made it seem absurd that someone today in science could consider it. Funnily enough, I was studying at university specifically because I had a deep interest in consciousness. At the time I called myself an agnostic but only because it made me feel intellectually more honest that saying I was an atheist because despite feeling certain that God did not exist, there was always what I thought was the remote possibility that I was wrong. I still remember the room I was in when the subject came up, and that was when my mind genuinely opened to the possibility that there was something I had missed. To cut this long story short, I left after my second year of study (in a four year degree), and while I didn’t end up with a degree or a career in neuroscience research as I had originally planned, it led me down a path to something much more valuable... faith in Jesus Christ.
So can you explain split brain patients having the favorite color red on one side and blue on the other if consciousness is from 1 soul? Or atheist on one side and theist on the other? Or the guy who was beating his wife with one hand and trying to stop himself with the other? And what do you make of the conjoined twins who are joined at the brain and have a wire connecting their brains just like the right and left of a person and can hear each others thoughts, feel what the other feels?
@@macmac1022 I would say that Christians might struggle to find explanations for complex issues around consciousness and souls, but that the God of Christianity would not. I think if I were a naturalist, the only resolution I could find would be to say that the soul and consciousness must simply not exist, and there must exist nothing that can't be reduced to particles and physical laws.
@@macmac1022So can you explain how the material universe created itself? Can you explain where the immaterial information encoded on the proteins of DNA came from?
I studied psychology, and i loved it since young when i was atheist because my mom is a psychologist. One of the questions that got stuck in my mind was when i looked to my brother's eye and though "why am i myself and not someone else?" When i was atheist i thought "one day science will solve this" (such faith). I discovered that this is one of the question that arises from the hard-problem-of-conscience. Also that we can seemingly turn on areas of our brain by mere will (free will), which is said to "seems to be an unbridgeable explanatory gap between the physical world and consciousness". After i began to study Computer Science, i noticed that nothing in CS and Robotics explain this too, no computer have individuality and can't pick their own chassis. Seems like the only plausible solution for this is that you have a soul.
One of the questions that got stuck in my mind when i was atheist was "why am i myself and not someone else?" Studying psychology and computer science and knowing about the hard-problem-of-conscience, i believe that a soul is the only answer to that.
An athiest wants you to believe your mind is a bunch of accidents!! But a Christian goes for the more commonsense, less mental-gymnastics-ridden explanation: GOD created the human mind. Who will you trust?
Keep in mind my statements/questions are not trying to cause disbelief in Christ, as I am Christian and believe Jesus Christ is Lord and Son of God the Father, died on the cross for the sins of the world, and defeated death on the third day; if mind is separate from brain, I don't think this video does well to explain how brain damage deteriorates someone's mind. Similarly, if mind is separate from brain, there shouldn't be genetic disorders that limit someone's mental capacity more than others (i.e. Down Syndrome). What happens when an able-minded person who rejects Christ gets into a car accident at 30-years old and suffers brain damage that prevents them from having the mental capacity to learn about Christ, repentance, and salvation?
If you look at the most physical fundamental view of what a mind is, it is just electrons. It has to be movement of electrons. In the synapses when there is no brain activity (when someone is dead), there is no movement of electrons or chemicals at synapses (yet has all the physical make up as a live person). Synapses between neurons, or you could say it has to be the movement of electrons in a pattern that brings about consciousness. The properties of moving electrons or chemicals at the end of synapses, in and of itself isn't thoughts. The image of a sunset is not the physical properties of moving electrons in a pattern.
When your body was born, why isn't the one who experiences it just another one of the billions of others who weren't you? Why isn't your body just another stranger? Billions and billions of them were born, one of the the other, none of them were you, why wasn't your body just another such case? Who are you to experience your brain when its clearly selective from a potential consciousness pre-existence?
Still not sufficient because you wouldn’t say that electrons flowing through a power line has a mind. There is something more than just the physical when it comes to the mind.
While studying neuroscience at university we were essentially told that the concept of the mind being something seperate to the brain was some ridiculous, outdated idea. They had to bring it up since it’s an idea that people had all most likely heard of, or someone willing to think outside the constraints of what they are taught might think about, and so they made it seem absurd that someone today in science could consider it.
Funnily enough, I was studying at university specifically because I had a deep interest in consciousness. At the time I called myself an agnostic but only because it made me feel intellectually more honest that saying I was an atheist because despite feeling certain that God did not exist, there was always what I thought was the remote possibility that I was wrong. I still remember the room I was in when the subject came up, and that was when my mind genuinely opened to the possibility that there was something I had missed.
To cut this long story short, I left after my second year of study (in a four year degree), and while I didn’t end up with a degree or a career in neuroscience research as I had originally planned, it led me down a path to something much more valuable... faith in Jesus Christ.
So can you explain split brain patients having the favorite color red on one side and blue on the other if consciousness is from 1 soul? Or atheist on one side and theist on the other? Or the guy who was beating his wife with one hand and trying to stop himself with the other?
And what do you make of the conjoined twins who are joined at the brain and have a wire connecting their brains just like the right and left of a person and can hear each others thoughts, feel what the other feels?
Amen
@@macmac1022 I would say that Christians might struggle to find explanations for complex issues around consciousness and souls, but that the God of Christianity would not.
I think if I were a naturalist, the only resolution I could find would be to say that the soul and consciousness must simply not exist, and there must exist nothing that can't be reduced to particles and physical laws.
@@macmac1022So can you explain how the material universe created itself? Can you explain where the immaterial information encoded on the proteins of DNA came from?
I studied psychology, and i loved it since young when i was atheist because my mom is a psychologist.
One of the questions that got stuck in my mind was when i looked to my brother's eye and though "why am i myself and not someone else?"
When i was atheist i thought "one day science will solve this" (such faith).
I discovered that this is one of the question that arises from the hard-problem-of-conscience.
Also that we can seemingly turn on areas of our brain by mere will (free will), which is said to "seems to be an unbridgeable explanatory gap between the physical world and consciousness".
After i began to study Computer Science, i noticed that nothing in CS and Robotics explain this too, no computer have individuality and can't pick their own chassis.
Seems like the only plausible solution for this is that you have a soul.
Being proves God
The best place to see and understand is outside the room. Thank you so much for your blessed heart ❤❤
brillianty explained ❤✝️. Especially from Cold Case Homicide detective who is a devoted Christian by faith. God bless you bro 🙏
I love how you explain things in a way that makes them easy to understand.
To God be the glory.
God is real, naturalism is the flath earthery of philsophy!
Outstanding explanations, sir.
One of the questions that got stuck in my mind when i was atheist was "why am i myself and not someone else?"
Studying psychology and computer science and knowing about the hard-problem-of-conscience, i believe that a soul is the only answer to that.
An athiest wants you to believe your mind is a bunch of accidents!!
But a Christian goes for the more commonsense, less mental-gymnastics-ridden explanation: GOD created the human mind.
Who will you trust?
Well done brother 👍
Informative video
Excellent video as always!
Great video! Thanks!
Great video as always!
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I love your work, Im learning so much, thank you for what you do, God bless you
Well said, sir! 🙏
Keep in mind my statements/questions are not trying to cause disbelief in Christ, as I am Christian and believe Jesus Christ is Lord and Son of God the Father, died on the cross for the sins of the world, and defeated death on the third day; if mind is separate from brain, I don't think this video does well to explain how brain damage deteriorates someone's mind. Similarly, if mind is separate from brain, there shouldn't be genetic disorders that limit someone's mental capacity more than others (i.e. Down Syndrome). What happens when an able-minded person who rejects Christ gets into a car accident at 30-years old and suffers brain damage that prevents them from having the mental capacity to learn about Christ, repentance, and salvation?
Amen❤️✝️🙏
interesting, but needs to be made more accessible
If you look at the most physical fundamental view of what a mind is, it is just electrons. It has to be movement of electrons. In the synapses when there is no brain activity (when someone is dead), there is no movement of electrons or chemicals at synapses (yet has all the physical make up as a live person).
Synapses between neurons, or you could say it has to be the movement of electrons in a pattern that brings about consciousness. The properties of moving electrons or chemicals at the end of synapses, in and of itself isn't thoughts. The image of a sunset is not the physical properties of moving electrons in a pattern.
When your body was born, why isn't the one who experiences it just another one of the billions of others who weren't you? Why isn't your body just another stranger? Billions and billions of them were born, one of the the other, none of them were you, why wasn't your body just another such case? Who are you to experience your brain when its clearly selective from a potential consciousness pre-existence?
Still not sufficient because you wouldn’t say that electrons flowing through a power line has a mind. There is something more than just the physical when it comes to the mind.
Did I make this comment consciously?
Did I make this comment consciously?
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