Author: Glenn Dudley

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2011-02-15

Total Pages: 778

ISBN-13: 9781439276792

This guided tour deep into the human brain reveals a long-hidden secret: the actual mechanism and logic by which mind emerges from matter. The implication is stunning and inescapable: creationism, not evolution, is the more scientific perspective – a seemingly religious bias that is staunchly confirmed by a second look at fossil, geological and other evidence. This conceptual breakthrough is derived from a new and deeper understanding of an image from which understanding we learn that God, not matter, is fundamental – this being the only way to explain the light of self and how this light is the immediate consequence of an accelerating, probabilistic relationship to the infinitude of nonexistence, against which the self sees itself as finite or "conscious." Indeed, this relationship to nonexistence allows us to appreciate that consciousness, invariably of a finite image, is the actual means by which order, and therefore matter itself, is formed – in the image of God whose creative essence is responsible for the existence of something over nothing. The central insight is twofold. First of all, the perception of an image, being highly specific, needs to be recognized as an extremely creative process requiring expectant scanning, matching, and the logical channeling of energy into movement, the movement by which we see an image. This logic explains consciousness in a manner not yet acknowledged by mainstream science – that mind is fundamental in overseeing a relationship between the finite and the infinite, something only possible if as the Bible teaches, "we live and move and have our being in God." Secondly, every image is fused with an awareness of the body mass as a whole by which it becomes apparent that perception is the very act of containing a universal tendency toward dissolution and nonexistence. Dudley analyzes the stunning similarities between the motor development of humans and that of much simpler organisms such as the salamander to show how in fact the regressive release and channeling of energy into anticipated form is tightly bound to the movement of the body mass as a whole through space and time. Indeed, space-time itself defines the very essence of an image which means that the perception of an image, every image, is the very act of creating and sustaining the body mass. The clear implication is that awareness is literally a vector between the finite and the infinite as encoded within neural design and that creation, the immediate result of an image, cannot have occurred by a succession of "tooth and claw" steps over millions of years – a claim robustly supported by a closer look at the evidence, including fossil and geological data. Dudley frames the big picture philosophically: the light of self, in a God-centered universe, derives from an accelerating tendency toward nonexistence. An image, on the other hand, represents the successful restraint of this tendency – thereby defining an oppositional system in which the contrast between self and other is, in a God-centered universe, quite literally the relationship between order and disorder, and equivalently between "past" and "future" – in the eternal "now" of time, the very habitat of God. By applying this reasoning to the brain, Dudley identifies the mechanism by which an image thwarts the Second Law – a mechanism housed, most notably, in the connection between the visual system and the brain's thermoregulatory core. It becomes apparent that transformations between energy and mass, expressed by the equation E = mc2, are meaningless apart from an image, and that the universe must then be an image in the mind of God. As a minimum, it becomes clear from this well-referenced study that good science cannot exclude God.