This semester has begun and I am learning a lot about the human brain.
The more I learn about the brain the more confused I get about life and of course, death.
The male human brain is not fully developed until around the age of 24.
The male human brain also begins to deteriorate around the age of 28.
The male human has about 4 years of fully developed brain and I am past that window.
I am now on the very slow march down the hill of brain function, but none the less it is deteriorating.
I'm learning about the limbic system. The amygdala and hippocampus the parts of the brain that have to do with memory and emotion. Along with the frontal lobe how it forms our personalities.
What are we? As humans what are we? Are we image bearers of God? Or I guess who am I?
Who Adam is, how he thinks, and how he feels are all based on the functions of my brain. If someone bashed in my frontal lobe the Adam who is typing these words would no longer exist. If damage occurred to my hippocampus I would no longer remember parts of my life that have shaped who I am.
Everything that makes up everyone I know is all so fragile. If our brains are damaged, we die, we go to Heaven, or whatever happens next, who would we be? Would our brains be repaired? But which brain would be mine? The deteriorating 28 year old one? The underdeveloped 16 year old one? Or the prime mid 20's brain?
What about humans who's brains did not develop correctly? When they die will it be correct? Wouldn't that change who they are? Did God not intend them to be born into Earth with their brain functioning at the level it did?
What about infants who die? What will their brain function be in Heaven?
On Earth we are either developing or deteriorating. How can the after life be any different? How can it be eternal when everything I know about this life is temporary. Do the trees' leaves never fall? Does the Earth stop rotating? Is it forever summer some place and winter others?
I don't know.
Everything I perceive in this life is because of my tiny 3 lb brain. The keys on the lap top only feel this way because my brain tells me they feel like this. The brightness of the screen. The coffee on my lips. It's all brain function. If I smash my occipital lobe then I will no longer have the brain function of sight. It's that simple.
Are we eternal beings with souls?
Or are we simply a collection of cells responding to the signals our brain is sending and receiving?
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
The more I learn about the brain the more confused I get about life and of course, death.
The male human brain is not fully developed until around the age of 24.
The male human brain also begins to deteriorate around the age of 28.
The male human has about 4 years of fully developed brain and I am past that window.
I am now on the very slow march down the hill of brain function, but none the less it is deteriorating.
I'm learning about the limbic system. The amygdala and hippocampus the parts of the brain that have to do with memory and emotion. Along with the frontal lobe how it forms our personalities.
What are we? As humans what are we? Are we image bearers of God? Or I guess who am I?
Who Adam is, how he thinks, and how he feels are all based on the functions of my brain. If someone bashed in my frontal lobe the Adam who is typing these words would no longer exist. If damage occurred to my hippocampus I would no longer remember parts of my life that have shaped who I am.
Everything that makes up everyone I know is all so fragile. If our brains are damaged, we die, we go to Heaven, or whatever happens next, who would we be? Would our brains be repaired? But which brain would be mine? The deteriorating 28 year old one? The underdeveloped 16 year old one? Or the prime mid 20's brain?
What about humans who's brains did not develop correctly? When they die will it be correct? Wouldn't that change who they are? Did God not intend them to be born into Earth with their brain functioning at the level it did?
What about infants who die? What will their brain function be in Heaven?
On Earth we are either developing or deteriorating. How can the after life be any different? How can it be eternal when everything I know about this life is temporary. Do the trees' leaves never fall? Does the Earth stop rotating? Is it forever summer some place and winter others?
I don't know.
Everything I perceive in this life is because of my tiny 3 lb brain. The keys on the lap top only feel this way because my brain tells me they feel like this. The brightness of the screen. The coffee on my lips. It's all brain function. If I smash my occipital lobe then I will no longer have the brain function of sight. It's that simple.
Are we eternal beings with souls?
Or are we simply a collection of cells responding to the signals our brain is sending and receiving?
Coldplay - Viva La Vida