Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising,
thou understandest my thought afar off.
Psalm 139:2
"We confirmed a fundamental principle of design in general: For two autonomous, automated entities with distinct boundaries to work together, they must be connected by an interface with three distinctive elements: 1) physical authentication mechanisms, 2) non-physical standardized protocols, and 3) a mutually accessible physical medium to both entities.
The common medium has characteristics accessible to both parties of an exchange so they can relate to each other—like a translator fluent in both English and Russian.
These linking interface functions are illustrated in the way this woman's interface was implanted and
An antenna outside her body picked up the transmitted signal and sent it to a computer and monitor...
Scientific American reported on the research:
"HB's [the patient's] mind is intact and the part of her brain that controls her bodily movements operates perfectly...surgeons placed the electrodes over the part of the brain's motor cortex that becomes activated when HB imagines closing her fingers. Analyzing the brain wave patterns…the computer could detect when she was imagining closing her fingers."
Remarkably, after 44 training runs for spelling, the woman could type at about two words per minute with greater than 90% accuracy.
In a healthy person, the nerves of the peripheral nervous system connect muscles and organs to the brain and form an interface between body parts and the central nervous system. In the case of this ailing woman, the electrodes on her brain and the wires to the computer were the common medium.
The computer algorithms, which correlated her thoughts to computer activity, are the protocols.
What this case also helps us see more clearly are the distinctive functions for mind and brain.
Specific brain activity in the hand-motor area was initiated when she merely "imagined" hand movements in her "mind." No scientist has come close to identifying exactly where the mind resides in the brain, if it actually resides in the brain, how imagination or communication are initiated, or even if the mind is material—since no human senses or any man-made device can detect a person's "mind."
Naturalistic evolutionists declare that the mind is a product of the brain because they believe that everything, even information and the human mind, must be reduced to matter. But this case indicates that the brain responds to the mind as a separate entity.
Could it also be that one purpose of body organs is to keep the brain, our interface to our mind/soul, functioning? Perhaps when the body fails and can no longer fuel the brain, or the brain itself fails completely, a vital element lost at death is the interface which was enabling the physical expression of our—still existing—mind/soul." ICR
