It’s one thing to describe the content of your thoughts but something else to try and describe the nature of thought itself! Behaviourist, John Watson is famous for claiming that thought was simply ‘sub-vocal processes in the larynx’! Many contemporary psychologists contend that thought originates with the brain, but there’s a growing school of thought that argues for an
extra-neural origin of consciousness. Despite much research having been undertaken to provide evidence for the belief that mind is simply a function of brain, scientists have yet to explain how the brain produces the mind. Dr D.J. Chalmers, director of the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona admits that neuroscience still has no direct evidence that the brain produces ‘the subjective essence of the mind and thoughts.’ Dr Sharon Dirckx, a leading authority on Brain Imaging, in her book ‘Am I Just MyBrain?’ puts it like this: ‘Brains don’t think: people think using theirbrains.’ Her research-based conclusion is that ‘The discoveries ofneuroscience are … entirely compatible with the existence of God.’ She writes, ‘although in the created world consciousness, mind and brain are mysteriously merged, it is … possible to beconscious without a body.’ Your consciousness and mine does not cease when we
die and leave our present physical body. We continue after death as living, acting, sentient beings.