Are you talking about thoughts that we have put into words or thoughts that have not yet been verbalized in rational thinking? Are you talking about day dreams? Are you talking about fears that are unknown even to ourselves?As Catholics we are taught that no one other than God can read our mind and know our thoughts. Even the devil doesn’t have this ability. But there has been a recent experiment done on people where their complex thoughts were revealed on a machine.
sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170626105758.htm
Carnegie Mellon University scientists can now use brain activation patterns to identify complex thoughts, such as, “The witness shouted during the trial.”
This also raises the question, does this mean that evolutionary psychology got it right in that everything is biological and not spiritual/abstract?
from the article…
The findings indicate that the mind’s building blocks for constructing complex thoughts are formed by the brain’s various sub-systems and are not word-based.
Are you talking about thoughts that we have put into words or thoughts that have not yet been verbalized in rational thinking? Are you talking about day dreams? Are you talking about fears that are unknown even to ourselves?As Catholics we are taught that no one other than God can read our mind and know our thoughts. Even the devil doesn’t have this ability. But there has been a recent experiment done on people where their complex thoughts were revealed on a machine.
sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170626105758.htm
Carnegie Mellon University scientists can now use brain activation patterns to identify complex thoughts, such as, “The witness shouted during the trial.”
This also raises the question, does this mean that evolutionary psychology got it right in that everything is biological and not spiritual/abstract?
from the article…
The findings indicate that the mind’s building blocks for constructing complex thoughts are formed by the brain’s various sub-systems and are not word-based.
Neither do I. But it is a matter of choice (free will) when deciding which to believe. What we decide will, for the most part, determine the direction our lives will go. If the existence of God was provable, we could not have the free will to believe or hope.How about the neuroscientist stance that free will is an illusion and any belief in God is nothing more than evolutionary hardwiring? I don’t buy it. It seems too convenient for them.