I Think I Am Thinking

I am currently on a "brain" kick. This means that I have once again gotten interested in how the brain works and, more generally, how our life is defined by our perception. Or perhaps...how our perception are shaped by our environment?!? It is all very interesting to me.

For instance, why do we need sleep? The obvious answer is to rest our body but the deepest stage of sleep results in our brain, heart, and breathing speeding up to match our dreams. And why do we dream? Is perhaps all of life a dream?

What about this? Have some people's "out-of-body experiences" simply been a very convincing perception inside their brain? How valid can our arguments for various theories be if they go through the filter of our mind?

Many have said that "If I can see it, I'll believe it"...well if you "see" a magician make a lady disappear, did it really happen? If you think, by touching an extremely hot surface, that it is freezing cold, is it?

At times, I swing from absurdity of Dadaism to the complete opposite (whatever that is called). I know there are truths about God but His timing of measuring out these truths makes it hard to apply "if A then B"-type logic.

I think about things like this most all the time...really! Mostly when I am by myself, but sometimes and inconveniently, in the middle of doing other things, including a conversation! Even as I write this I am thinking of other topics. There are times that I feel like my brain in thinking about these things, is actually twisting back on itself for self-examination. I worry that one day my brain will get itself in a knot it can't get out of!

This probably isn't that last post I do on this subject but let me close with one more thought...

I sometimes worry that this line of thought is at odds with my faith in Jesus. I currently feel that I am covered by the verses in Proverbs, 1:5 and 18:15. While I get most information from the Internet, then from books. I welcome an open discussion on this so that I can acquire wise counsel.