Consciousness Points to a Creator Part 3: Podcast 87This week we continue with part three of a four part series looking at how the best explanation of our consciousness is an intelligent Creator.Resources:Lee Strobel, The Case for a Creator, 2004 – Interview with J.P MorelandMichael Egnor and Denyse O’Leary, The Immortal Mind, 2025, **Ref1https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1YWy5SQPhg “Thus he concluded that abstract thought is a function of something other than or beyond the physical brain.  He came to define the mind as the element in an individual “that feels, perceives, thinks, wills, and especially reasons.”  **Ref1“Well, a simple definition is that consciousness is what you’re aware of when you introspect.  When you pay attention to what’s going on inside of you, that’s consciousness.”  Lee Strobel, The Case for a Creator, 2004 Webster's Online Def:1  a: the quality or state of being aware especially of something within oneself    b : the state or fact of being conscious of an external object, state, or fact2  : the state of being characterized by sensation, emotion, volition, and thought“This surgery led to truly remarkable neuroscience research in the twentieth century.  Here’s the most radical thing it tells us:  Even when the brain is split in half, many important aspects of the mind remain unified.  Thus, the mind is something that the brain isn’t.  **Ref1“Thirty years later, in 2017, neuroscientist Yair Pinto and his colleagues concluded, after reviewing decades of brain-splitting research, that the most accurate summary of the research is this: Split-brain patients have split perception but unified consciousness.”  **Ref1 “Reflecting on questions like these, he shed light on the overall mind-brain relationship.  That is, Penfield observed that the mind has an existence independent of the brain, and that the mind uses the brain to interact with the world, in a way analogous to the way a computer programmer uses a computer to accomplish tasks.”  **Ref1 “Again and again, Penfield found a duality in consciousness – some thoughts (such as experiences from childhood) could be evoked by stimulation of the brain itself, while others (awareness of one’s current circumstances and the capacity for reflection and reason) could not.”  **Ref1 “But there was a key exception to what Penfield could stimulate in the brain.  He was never able to stimulate abstract thought – that is, the sense of self, the capacity to reason, and the exercise of free will.” **Ref1 “He could evoke movements, sensations, memories, and emotions.  But he could not evoke what he called the “mind,” which corresponds to the capacity for abstract thought and free will (or, in philosophical terms, the immaterial spiritual powers of the soul”.  Penfield thought this exclusion of a whole class of thoughts – abstract conceptual thought and free will – was remarkable, and it is.”  **Ref1 “For example, when I write a mathematical equation on a piece of paper, the area of my brain that generates the movement of my right hand can be localized to millimeter accuracy on the precentral gyrus of my left frontal lobe.  But my understanding of the equation cannot be localized at all.”  **Ref1 

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