Greetings! This blog was made for close family and friends of mine but if you have stumbled upon it by chance, I hope to make a pleasant experience for you. This blog is less meant for me writing essays than for a focused conversation on relevant topics. I will post a topic with my views and specific education I have gained on the topic and I hope a good conversation will spark. This is the best way to learn and to advance ourselves intellectually, with conversation and debate.
I think it would be relevant, then, to start by asking what you know about yourself. Are you, the personal you, a result of electrical impulses of the brain? Is your consciousness a matter of cells that are, together, thinking and feeling? I’m not asking if your brain and the cells within MAKE introspection possible (I think we can all agree this is factual) but if the actual introspection itself is OF the cells or is it OF a consciousness separate from our physicality. This is a dividing topic among Darwinists (and most Atheists) and Creationists. Darwinist philosopher Michael Ruse has stated “No one... seems to have an answer to this... The point is that there is no scientific answer.”
Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield conducted experiments on the brains of epilepsy patients causing physical actions that the patients could not control in which they would respond that they didn’t do that, the doctor did. The patient would think of themselves as having an existence separate from their body. Nowhere has been found a part of the brain that could be stimulated to “decide” or “believe”. Where, then, does this most core and important part of ourselves reside? Is there something else apart from our physical self that houses this basic function? Sounds like good evidence for a soul to me.
