A Theory Regarding The Brain
I have a theory about the use of the brain that I wanted to put in writing. I will be the first to say that I understand zilch about how the brain works. How it can transform impulses from an optic nerve to make 3D sense regarding what we see in the physical world. The same with sonic information from the ears in mult-directional sources, smell, taste, touch and especially--sentience.
Beyond that, which I admit pure ignorance, I would like to explore the following possibility regarding memories. I personally believe that it is physically impossible for our relatively small grey matter to contain a lifetime's worth of knowledge and memories.
I want to begin this theory by acknowledging the fact that the brain is far more advanced that our most complex computer or operating systems. However, I think they share some common traits that will help illustrate where I am coming from.
I have a laptop computer, it can hold quite a bit of information. However, it cannot hold a fraction of what it can hold with the use of a network server. And that network server cannot hold a fraction of what is available on the Internet. Now, my little laptop, though not able to hold such information packets locally, can have access to them via a wireless, or Wi-Fi connection. Though my lowly laptop cannot hold my entire archive of photos, music, or videos stored on my network server drive, I do have access via this wireless network connection. If something goes wrong with my laptop, my archive of memories and files remains intact. Same with the Internet. It too will not be effective by my laptop's demise.
When God created Adam, He created the hardware to live within the physics of space-time. However, to operate as a living being, God breathed in the software for Adam's operating system to work and become a sentient being. Sentience is something that science cannot explain--it is a product of the eternal. Since it comes from the eternal, there may have also been a connection made to the eternal that resembles the Wi-Fi we use in our computers.
It may just be that our lifetime accumulation of visual, audible and experiential memories are actually stored in a space outside of our present five dimension, that is, the domain of the spiritual. In the book of Daniel, we read the following from a vision from the future judgment...
Daniel 7:9-11
I watched till thrones were put in place,
And the Ancient of Days was seated...
...The court was seated,
And the books were opened.
In the final judgment, books will be opened. But what are in these books? We read the answer in Revelation 20:11-12...
Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books.
The books are the record of all of our works, whether good, bad, of faith, of the flesh, for pleasure, for benefit, congenial, selfish, benevolet, or malevolent. All will be taken into account and judged in juxtoposition to our amount of revelation of truth given.
Could it be that our memories is a Wi-Fi connection to these books stored in the eternal? Could it be that our soul has some sort of connection to a network server of archived data?
Now consider something a little further. When we are "born again", our spirit, which was once dead, becomes alive and now, because of the finished work of Christ, we have access to the very throne of God!
Ephesians 2:18
For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.
Yes, I have a Wi-Fi access to my own personal network server. But when I hooked up my first DSL router to my router, my lowly laptop not only had access to my personal memories and data, but to an entire of information that even my network storage could not even come close to holding. Could it be that our spirits being born again has given us access far beyond what we could ever thought to imagine? We can now email our Father in heaven through prayer, our minds are now open to understand the wealth of His Word, and more than that, it is access to live tech support!
This may be a very simplistic analogy. I am quite sure it goes way beyond that. I just thought I blog it out and throw it out there for those interested to ponder. Thanks for reading! - Schneb
