Scientists can’t figure out the mysteries of the brain because they refuse to allow for the presence of a spiritual component existing conterminously with the neurons, the material component. The presence of a spiritual component provides us with dual memory: a material memory located in the neuronal circuitry of the brain and a “perceptual” memory located in the spiritual substance called nous. The perceptual memory stores qualia, feelings, emotions, meanings, concepts, and percepts, all of which have a “continuous” nature. Neurons, on the other hand have a “discrete” (individual) nature. Specific neuronal circuits activate specific areas of the perceptual memory to induce sentient experiences.
Photons of a certain energy (wavelength) activate certain cones in the retina that convert light to an action potential that is transferred through 3 other types of cells to the optic nerve. The optic nerve sends the action potentials to the thalamus where it is transferred to visual area of the cerebral cortex and we “see” the color red. The redness is not the complex neuronal circuitry; neurons are matter and matter cannot and does not generate redness. The neurons merely provide the pathway from the photons to the experience of redness. Light energy causes redness, but the photons are not red. The photon merely start the activation of neurons that activate the nous in which the neurons are immersed. The redness, along with all other qualia, must inhere in the nous that forms the perceptual memory from which the sentient experience arises.
From this we can argue that the mind is the interaction of the brain and the nous. Without the brain or without the nous we cannot see. Both are required. However, when we see red, the mind invariably silently “thinks” the word red. Thinking requires language and that implies that the part of the brain that interacts with the nous to form the mind is the neuronal circuits that store the language instinct in humans. Other animals have brains with similar neuronal circuitry and nous that generates an experience of redness, but do not possess minds. Consequently both a material component, the language circuitry of the brain and a spiritual component called nous are necessary for a mind to exist and function.
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