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PART 1 | The materialist, evolution, cosmology, and atheist belief is that consciousness can be reduced to electrochemical interactions. What are reasons, beyond those referenced in my answer, why that cannot be true?

No observation or experiment has ever proven consciousness can spontaneously emerge from random chemicals. No one has ever been able to combine chemicals in any way to produce a spontaneous thought, much less the 60,000 that spontaneously appear each day in the average human.

That's because we are not just a physical stimulus-response mechanism controlled and directed by an electrochemical computer made of meat—the brain. Consciousness is not an epiphenomenon, a by-product of cascading molecular interactions confined inside the skull.

Nor can consciousness be traced to a precise location in the brain or body. It is best likened to the indeterminate subatomic quantum world--of which we are made--where everything is everywhere all at once.

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The brain, with its countless capabilities, consists of about 23 billion neuron brain cells joined together with about 1014 connecting synapses.

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The internet, the most complex human invention ever, consists of billions of computers electromagnetically linked together. Just one Intel processor measuring less than a square inch in just one computer has well over 1.5 billion transistors on it. Billions of computers times billions of transistors far exceed the connections in a human brain.

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But all of that material computing power is not conscious, nor does it have free will. It's robotically bound to and limited by the program commands from human brains and physical laws.

Our essence, our self-aware volitional identity, is holistic and extrinsic to the bounds of the matter in our brains.

This understanding helps us better grasp many puzzling human feats, such as:

• Knowing fantastic detail in huge mathematical pictures, such as the ability of Akira Haraguchi to recite a number for pi out to 83,431 decimal places.
  
  

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• The transference of learned skills. For example, trace your name in the air with your left elbow, something you have never done before. The fact that you can do it suggests that skills are learned holographically and not restricted to a particular spot in the brain.

• Recognition of a familiar face, body, or walk regardless of the angle or part viewed.

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• Learning to ride a bicycle without memorizing every intricate detail of movement in order to balance, pedal, and steer. We connect with things holistically, not by pieces.

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• Seeing what is not thereby constructing images, words, and thoughts out of fragments. For example--

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• Notice here how you will slowly be able to read what is not even there. Such feats require a complexity not explained by chemical reactions or electric impulses.

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Such feats require a complexity not explained by materialistic, spontaneous, abiogenic, evolutionary, chemical, or electrical processes. Some feats, like pi out to the umpteenth digit, may be able to be duplicated by computers. We, on the other hand, can decide if, when, and where to do them. This conscious free will is beyond the ability of chemicals or computers.

Extraordinary skills and psychic abilities reflect a level of consciousness underneath our mechanical material brain. They emerge regularly for some, less so for others. They may come unannounced or by choice.

In either case, they provide a glimpse of the capabilities we have in our spiritual essence.

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PART 2 | Modern cosmology, atheism, and evolution belief is that our thoughts are a product of matter. Why, when, as in my answer below, no proof exists that matter can produce any of the 60,000 thoughts we have daily?

Thoughts arrive unannounced through the course of every day and steal us away. Yet nobody has any idea what the source is of those 60,000+ thoughts each day.

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No piece of matter can explain why thoughts spring to consciousness in the order they do and stay organized. We don't have several thoughts coming forth all at once. Rarely, other than in some meditative states and in sleep, are there lapses with no thought at all.

If the brain is just a repository of data, that would not explain how that data is organized or comes together to create coherent thoughts, decisions, or new ideas.

Nobody has any idea how a combination of chemicals in the brain prevents all the data, memories, ideas, thoughts, etc. from spilling out randomly and spontaneously making us quite crazy and functionless.

Atoms do not create thoughts

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All of the millions of inventions throughout history came from human thought. It's rationally and scientifically impossible that such incredible complexity, novelty, and creativity could spontaneously emerge from a soup of mechanical brain atoms that are known to do nothing more than behave as atoms.

Thoughts are not the product of chemical reactions

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Mathematics is fundamental to all technological advances. It's a purely intellectual phenomenon that cannot be tied in any way to the evolutionary neurophysiologist's stimulus-response model of the brain.

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We are dynamic, creative, adaptable, volitional, and spontaneous. We have consciousness, free will, conscience, and reason. These qualities are not reducible to the data our brains can amass. Trying to explain these qualities with matter is like trying to find the structure of ambition.

Moreover, we require a sufficient cause.

Logical syllogism:

1. Complex functional machinery requires intelligent causation.

2. Humans are complex functional machinery.

3. Therefore, humans require intelligent causation.

We are created beings temporarily occupying and using a physical mortal shell. That shell is not our essence.

These understandings have nothing to do with man-made religions and their anthropomorphized-made man gods.

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PART 3 | It is commonly believed that the brain creates thinking. Why is evidence ignored, as in my post below, proving that the I, our immortal essence, is outside the brain?

Extraneous consciousness is the initiator and orchestrator of thought. The physical brain is the machinery being directed.

Unusual abilities, such as ESP, psychokinesis, clairvoyance, and remote viewing can best be explained by the understanding that consciousness exists outside of our material world.

Our day-to-day sense of self also tells us that we are other than brain.

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When engaged with the brain, our nonmaterial consciousness and sense of self use the material brain in much the same way a garage door opener controller directs the motor to lift the door.

Similarly, the relationship between consciousness and brain is like that between a programmer and a computer, or a farmer and his tractor.

The brain can also be likened to a video receiver. When we search and see an elephant, that elephant is not actually in the receiver. The image of the elephant is sent to the receiver via invisible waves from somewhere else. We can click to search innumerable messages and images, but not one of them originates from the receiver.

Messages and images can be stored in memory by a digital receiver, just like they can be stored in the brain. But a decision to retrieve them requires an outside agency.

When the brain is asleep and disengaged to an extent from the extraneous I, nonsensical and unreal movies can play out in an alternate dreamworld reality.

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Choices and initiation (other than reflexes) do not originate within the brain-neural matrix. They come from elsewhere. The brain processes these directives and sends neural signals for the body to obey.

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Moreover, the unimaginable complexity of the body and brain requires a sufficient cause.

Logical syllogism:

1. Complex functional machinery requires intelligent causation.

2. Human bodies and brains are complex functional machinery.

3. Therefore, humans require intelligent causation.

That creative and incomprehensible intelligence is beyond matter and the cause of our nonmaterial conscious essence--the volitional conscience-driven being we actually are.

This understanding has nothing to do with man-made religions and their anthropomorphized-made man gods.

In the next installment of this series of posts, more evidence will be covered proving we are created beings temporarily occupying a physical mortal shell, such as people with almost no brain being loving, thinking normally, and even having high IQ.

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PART 4 | It is believed that brain matter initiates and produces thought. How can this be true when people with essentially no brain (documented in my answer below) and other evidence prove that the I, our immortal essence, is outside the brain?

Aside from disproving the evolutionary belief that the bigger the brain, the smarter the critter, some people can have almost no brain and be exceptional thinkers.

In children with hydrocephalus, cerebrospinal fluid in the ventricles of the brain can build up and squeeze the cortex (the outer "smart" layer of the brain) to the point that there is very little cortex at all.

Although hydrocephalus can result in various problems, mental development may be normal. In one case, a 26-year-old student with hydrocephalus had an IQ of 126 and received honors in mathematics. He had virtually no brain other than a thin layer less than a millimeter thick.

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Boy born with 2% brain

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See boy born with no brain on YouTube.

Brain Attrition—Each day a human loses about a thousand brain neurons. Some 80% of the neural mass is dissolved by age 14. Despite this considerable disruption and loss, consciousness maintains its integrity. Not only that, great intellect can be developed in the adult years as the brain mass continues to shrink.

Body Turnover—If we are mere matter, that would mean we come from our food and leave via the toilet. Some parts of the body turnover in a few days, while the skeleton takes a decade to refresh itself. The consistency of a person's sense of unique identity, through several atomic changeovers of the body during a lifetime, points to something outside of matter that's the source of that constancy.

Brain Excision—Patients who have a part of their brain removed due to tumors maintain self-awareness.

Head Injury—Victims of accidents with large portions of their brains damaged often still perform functions believed to be controlled by the damaged or missing parts.

Blind Sight—People who have had a part of their visual cortex surgically removed or damaged, lose sight in a portion of a visual field. One patient was tested with things placed in the blind field and asked to guess what they were. Accuracy was near 100%. The mind can see when there is no visual portion of the brain to permit vision.

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Inferred Sight—Some individuals who are blind insist that they can see quite well, apparently visually conscious of the inferred surroundings. You can test your own ability to see by inference. In this drawing note that you will see a white triangle even though most of the borders are not drawn.

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Phantom Limbs—People who have had limbs removed, are born without them, or have a section of the body anesthetized, can experience the motor and sensory sensations of the part missing or anesthetically blocked. Research has shown that these sensations don't originate in the brain or severed nerve endings at the point of amputation.

Documented out-of-body and near-death experiences are, in effect, whole-body phantoms.

As will be shown in the next installment on this subject, even animals have an essence that is different from and beyond the chemicals that make up their brains.

Those committed to materialistic and evolutionary beliefs must dismiss all such evidence. Their doctrine is that we are nothing more than the mass of a chance agglomeration of atoms.

This doctrine should be dismissed out of hand. Never has a thought, memory, or desire been weighed or experimentally produced by a chemical reaction.

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PART 5 | The characteristics of mind and intelligence are throughout nature, even where brains do not exist. Will this (examples in my post below) wake people up to the living world being other than matter?

We are taught that brains are where intelligence comes from.

However--

Compass termites

Compass termites build huge stone-like monoliths. The mound is a few inches thick, about 12 feet square, and perfectly oriented north-south. This permits the knife-like edge of the mound to decrease exposure to the overhead hot noon sun, while its broad faces capture the heat from the rising and declining sun.

Its elaborate internal honeycomb structure has thousands of shaft valves to facilitate air conditioning so that the internal temperature and humidity remain constant. A single termite has no idea how to build such a thing. As a group, they have the mind—X that out—genius, to do it perfectly. Since that genius of the colony mind does not reside in any single termite, it must lie outside of them.

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BEEHIVES
With outside temperatures dropping to well below freezing, and humidity at 30%, the inside of a beehive remains at 70 degrees and 90% humidity. No single bee has any idea how to do this. Bee genius comes from elsewhere.


AFRICAN DRIVER ANTS
African driver ants can number over 22 million in a colony. All of them are blind. There are specialized hunters, nest tenders, and fighter sentries that guard the river of ants as it flows through the jungle. Although these blind creatures can communicate to a degree by chemical pheromones, only an extrinsic colony mind could orchestrate all the ants to one unified colony purpose.

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SEA ANEMONE
A sea anemone has no brain, ganglia (nests of intermingled nerves), or even concentrated neurons, yet all its parts coordinate. Each tentacle also has a memory. If offered a trick non-food object, the tentacle will remember and reject it the next time it's offered. Only that one brainless tentacle and none of the others remembers the trick.

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PROTOZOA
Mixotricha paradoxa are protozoa that digest the wood in a termite's gut. They have no nervous system and move with cilia that are themselves individual rod-like bacteria. There is no physical mind in control.


BACTERIA
Bacteria with no nervous system have been found to both learn and remember. E. coli bacteria can evaluate 20 different chemicals at the same time, swim to the area where food concentration is increasing the fastest, reevaluate the environment every 4 seconds, and communicate with one another. They are one-celled and brainless.


E. COLI BACTERIUM

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MOLDS
When food becomes scarce, the tiny brainless underground slime mold, Dictostylium, will gather in a group of about 100,000. They then decide to form into one organism, a tiny slug that wriggles its way up through the ground mulch. Some of these slugs then become a stalk. Others at the top become spores so they can spread with the wind to new food sources. That process is orchestrated with no nerves and no brains.

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SHOALS, FLOCKS, SWARMS
Shoals, flocks, and swarms of fish, birds, and insects will move like one gigantic organism with no crashes and no clear leader. Millions of Indonesian fireflies spread over miles will synchronize their flash. There is no identified material seat of intelligence that directs these multitudes.


BIRD FLOCK SWARMING WITH NO COLLISIONS

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PLANTS
Plants, without brains, communicate and have memory. For example, trees being foraged or invaded by insects will send a message of warning to fellow trees miles away. In response, the trees receiving the message will increase the production of tannins and other chemicals that are noxious and toxic to the attackers. Roots of plants also communicate back and forth with brainless soil fungi and other microorganisms.

The Venus Flytrap emits a blue glow to attract insects. It has the intelligence to count to 20 seconds before closing the trap. This permits time to decide if what lands in it is living or just debris It also decides whether an insect caught is a pollinator that should not be trapped or a meal that should. All decisions are made with no brain.


VENUS FLYTRAP

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CRUEL ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS
(These experiments are cruel and unnecessary.)

Rats with massive portions of their brains removed continued to run a previously learned maze efficiently. Salamanders that have had their brains sliced, flipped, shuffled, and with parts deleted and even minced retained certain behaviors.

The results backfire on the evolutionary materialistic experimenters. The experiments prove what they must ignore: animals, including humans, are other than their material composition.

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PART 6 | Materialism, evolution, and atheism argue that we are nothing but packages of wet nuts and bolts. Why should this believed when the human body, as described in my post below, proves we are something else?

The human body doesn't consciously control whatever it is that keeps it alive. Something immensely intelligent must govern, coordinate, and direct myriad functions performed by trillions of cells (we're like a moving ant colony) and quintillions of molecular and atomic functions going on at any given second in the body.

No physical command center can be found anywhere in the body.

The human brain and nervous system can be thought of as a colony of worker neurons, communicator neurons, interconnecting and supporting glial cells (microglia, astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, etc.), and a variety of other specialized cells (Schwann, ependymal, satellite, etc.). The command center of the nervous system "colony" apparently lies outside of the body since no specific material locus can be identified as the leader.

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Human organs are also like colonies. There are billions of liver cells, but no identifiable controller of which liver cell will do which function, how the shape of the three pounds of liver is maintained, and what liver cell goes to which exact spot on which lobe during embryological development. The intricately coordinated mass of liver cells process about a liter of blood each minute, performs over 500 different chemical reactions, converts food to chemicals that can be used by body cells, and clears the blood of toxins—to begin the list of functions. Nobody has ever found a liver brain, nor have they explained how all the liver cells get along so well. There are no wars, insurrections, slackers, social programs, or revolutions, just harmony and peace generation after generation (unless we assault it with improper living, eating, or drugs). On top of that, if up to half of the liver is damaged, it will regenerate itself.

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The lauded DNA turns out not to be some self-actuating program explaining life, but only a recipe for the use of amino acid ingredients (protein/enzyme components). DNA or other nucleic acids do not explain why all the ingredients in the trillions of creatures on Earth assemble as they do into whole functioning organisms. No physical entity has been identified that controls life's components, turns them on and off, and measures their dose. Since these machinations are far more complex than even our brains can comprehend, they are best accounted for by a super-, and supra-intelligence.

Brainless (actually half-witted—containing only half the genetic material of a body cell) spermatozoa swim miles (on a human scale) to find a brainless (half-witted) egg to form a fertilized whole-witted, but brainless zygote the size of this period. This in turn divides trillions of times and some of the brainless cells become livers, some tongues, some fingers, and some brains that proceed to reason that their intelligence comes from non-intelligence.

Human fertilization

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The heart has qualities that are often ascribed to the brain, such as emotion, love, and intelligence. Dr. Gary Schwartz, at the University of Arizona, reports that there are over 70 documented cases of individuals receiving heart transplants getting far more than they bargained for. Sonny Graham received a heart from Terry Cottle who had shot himself. Sonny became infatuated with Terry's widow and married her. Twelve years later he shot himself. A young boy who wrote poetry and songs died in a car crash. His heart was donated to a girl named Danielle, who, upon hearing a song the young boy had written, immediately knew the words to it. A young boy who loved classical music died with his violin on his chest. The recipient of his heart developed a love for classical music. A lesbian who was fond of burgers received the heart of a man-crazy vegetarian lady. The recipient then developed an aversion to meat and married a man shortly after that.

(Internet search Dr. Cowan cosmic heart.)

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This constitutes more evidence of our holographic nature and that mind is both extraneous to and perfuses the body just like it does a flock of birds and an ant colony.

The idea that mind is imbued within and at the same time extraneous to our material reality has been intuitively concluded as far back as the Greek philosophers and before. Words that describe this include animism, panpsychism, enminded, and idealism. Quantum physics buttresses this by revealing that matter at its most fundamental level appears to dissolve into something akin to a timeless mind. Moreover, the design and functional complexity throughout nature infers inherent mind as do all paranormal, and preternatural phenomena.

Mind is not dependent on matter, but rather matter depends upon a preexistent and timeless mind. That means our physicality would have a pre-body history. That also means we would have a post-body future.

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PART 7 | You are not just matter and AI will never be you, as explained in my post below. Why is this ignored by materialists even though advanced physics proves it?

You are not just a machine, a biological robot in a meaningless Universe.

• You are not your brain.
• You are not your genes.
• You are not your body.

You are consciousness—fundamental, irreducible, and eternal.

The father of modern physics, Max Planck said this:

"I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness."

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Planck was the founder of quantum science, PhD at age 21, Nobel prize in 1918, and spent his genius life probing the atom and subatomic world. Other important physicists, such as Niels Bohr, Alan Turing, Werner Heisenberg, John Wheeler, and Eugene Wigner have arrived at similar views.

Quantum mechanics isn’t just philosophy. It's physics that's proven by experimentation pointing to a Universe that is mental, not mechanical.

(Planck's experiment that resulted in his conclusion is called the double slit experiment where mere observation changed the behavior of particles. Fully explained online.)

If you try to wade into the quantum mechanics lingo, it will give you a headache:

"Matter isn’t solid or fixed—it’s probabilistic and doesn’t even “exist” in any definite way until it's observed. Observation—the act of conscious awareness—collapses probability into the material reality we can see. Particles do not have definite properties until they are observed. That is, reality doesn’t fully exist until a mind participates in it. The underlying field of reality is consciousness itself—and matter is a product of that consciousness."


Consciousness is fundamental and preeminent

• Consciousness comes first—not atoms, not energy, not space, not time, not Big Bang.

• Matter comes from consciousness, not the other way around.

• Consciousness isn’t in the universe. The universe is in consciousness.

• Consciousness isn't a by-product of matter, it's the source of it.

Government has a vested interest in what we believe
We have all been taught in materialistic government schools that "science" says we are nothing but matter. Anything contrary is painted as hooey. This serves the government's objective of distracting us from our own minds and independence. Like herded cattle, we rely on government promises, military, handouts, health edicts, protection from asteroids, and salvation on Mars when we destroy Earth.

If government can convince us we are nothing but biological robots, we can be controlled just like robots. And control is government's primary objective.


The materialist doctrines we're taught to believe can't explain consciousness

• Abiogenesis(spontaneous generation: life springing from nonlife) is false because lifeless matter cannot generate conscious life.

• Evolution, which depends on mechanical, blind processes, cannot explain consciousness or moral awareness.

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Physical reality is machinery requiring conscious causation
Quanta, atoms, molecules, and organisms are all complex functional machinery.

Complex functional machinery has only one possible reason to exist: intelligence.

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Molecular machinery in cells

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We already know what Planck discovered
We know we are conscious, self-aware, intuitive, conscience-driven, have free will, and are something other than the atoms in our head, fingers, and toes.

Our earliest memory of self is identical to our sense of identity through all the decades of life. People in their 90s and above say they are still the same person they were as a small child. Yes, experience and learning accumulate, but the underlying I remains the same.

Our invisible self is the most certain thing we can ever know.


Where consciousness comes from
The modern scientific worldview promoted by governments, their educators, and the media tells us consciousness is an accident—a glitch that emerged from lifeless atoms through chance over time. In this view, you are nothing more than a material brain housing chemical reactions and electricity.

That belief brainwashed into us is absent any proof:

• Nobody knows what initiates the 60,000 or so thoughts that pop into the mind each day.

• Nobody knows how thoughts are sequenced and appear one by one rather than all at once driving us crazy.

• Nobody can point to a location in the brain where thoughts come from.

• Nobody can point to a chemical reaction in the brain that creates a thought.

• Nobody can disprove ESP, near-death and out-of-body experiences, psychic communication with the dead, remote viewing, reincarnation, precognition, and other preternatural events pointing to mind outside of matter.

AI machines cannot replace us
You can't get self-aware free-willed consciousness from plastic, metal, and silicone or from information in a string of 0s and 1s code.

Alan Turing, the father of computer science, found that a machine can simulate the output of thinking, but not the experience of thinking or the free will to do so. Computation is not consciousness. So, while AI may out compute us, it will never become us.

Remember, as Planck and others have discovered, matter cannot create consciousness. A computer or robot is made of matter so, by definition, they cannot create consciousness. AI can only be a mirror reflecting human consciousness back at us, but never generating its own.


The real you
You are not just a machine made of meat. You are not an evolved biological robot resulting from eons of accumulated mutational damage. You are not a transient spark in a dying meaningless universe.

You are a nonmaterial conscious being directing your material brain. You are a knower that your essence is other than the atoms in your body-- if materialistic beliefs don't get in the way. That knowing doesn’t come from neurons, atoms, or algorithms. It comes from something beyond your physical body, the real immortal you.

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PART 8 | Plants are people too. I explain why below. Can you prove otherwise?

The modern scientific establishment teaches us that consciousness is an emergent property of neurons—found only in brains and only as a product of evolution and chance. In this view, a plant is just a dumb package of chemicals, genetic programming, sunlight processing, and utterly devoid of awareness or purpose.

However--


The Backster Effect
In 1966, Professor Cleve Backster, a former CIA polygraph expert, hooked a Dracaena plant up to a polygraph machine—a lie detector—expecting to measure stress levels in response to watering. When Backster thought about burning a leaf, the plant responded with a dramatic electrical spike.

In another experiment, he had a person destroy one of several plants in a room. Later, when that person re-entered the room, the surviving plants showed a distinct electrical reaction on the polygraph. They "recognized" the murderer.

These results demonstrate that plants are not merely chemical automatons, but beings that remember and respond to human intent. They are aware beings.

Here, in a variety of experiments, even brainless bacteria demonstrate sentience.

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Debunking the Debunkers
Science today is often confused with materialist philosophy. In that view, consciousness without a brain is impossible—therefore, any experiment suggesting otherwise must be flawed. That's not science. That's circular reasoning.

Mainstream scientists have largely dismissed Backster's work, of course. They have a belief system to protect.

Modern science is not neutral. It's embedded in a materialist worldview that cannot allow for consciousness to exist without brains. To them, if a plant reacts to a thought, it must be a mistake. There is no room for such a possibility.

But science is not supposed to be about beliefs. It should follow the evidence even if it doesn't fit dogma.


Evidence from Other Fields
Other researchers have also uncovered data that challenges the mechanistic view of plant life.

1. Jagadish Chandra Bose, a physicist and botanist in the early 1900s, demonstrated that plants react to light, heat, touch, and stimuli that would elicit pain in creatures with nervous systems.
   
   
2. Monica Gagliano, a plant biologist, showed that plants can learn.
   
   
3. The "Wood Wide Web" refers to mycorrhizal fungal networks connecting trees and plants underground. Through these networks, plants send distress signals, nutrients, and even selective warnings about pests to neighbors.
   
   
4. Michael Pollan, a respected science journalist, has catalogued various studies showing plants can count, communicate, self-medicate, and even demonstrate risk assessment. They send chemicals to warn others of threats, grow in specific directions toward favorable conditions, and adjust behavior based on prior experience.

Plants help us understand who and what we and the rest of reality really are
Plants are proven to communicate, act with purpose, remember, and react to harm and love. Those qualities fit consciousness and sentience.

If consciousness exists in living things that have no brains, that means brain chemistry is not the source of consciousness. Consciousness is not an emergent property of matter. Rather, matter is a product of consciousness.

Brains, therefore, are not who we are, the source of our consciousness, or our sense of self. This fits the results of near-death, out-of-body, past life, and psychic peer-reviewed research, proving consciousness survives death. That, plus the findings in quantum physics and the existence of complex functional machinery in all matter, forces the conclusion of an intelligence that pervades everything.

Consciousness is the foundation, matter is only one expression of it.

And no,these conclusions have nothing to do with man-made religions and their man-made gods.


A challenge
If you are locked into the idea that matter and energy are all there is and brains are the source of the 60,000 thoughts that come to us each day, here's the proof needed.

Demonstrate, by experiment using the scientific method, that a chemical reaction, any chemical reaction, can produce consciousness. Not electrical activity. Not chemical bonding. But actual awareness—qualia, self-reflection, the inner voice that knows it exists.

This challenge has never been met, nor will it be.


Resources for further study

• Cleve Backster's original work, "Primary Perception: Biocommunication with Plants, Living Foods, and Human Cells"
  
  
• "The Secret Life of Plants" by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird
  
  
• Research of Jagadish Chandra Bose (early 1900s)
  
  
• Monica Gagliano's experiments on plant memory (University of Western Australia)
  
  
• "The Intelligent Plant," by Michael Pollan,The New Yorker, December 2013
  
  
• Suzanne Simard's work on forest communication networks
  
  
• Rupert Sheldrake,A New Science of Life

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PART 9 | AI admits intelligent causation

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is often perceived as a neutral and logical engine capable of assembling facts and applying reason to complex topics. But when it comes to the origin of life, most AI platforms display a deep bias, reflecting the bias of their materialist human programmers.

Like mainstream media, most AIs parrot consensus beliefs that serve the interests of government and its education and industrial-tech partners.

Those beliefs are: atheism, abiogenesis (life from nonlife), evolution, and modern cosmology and cosmogony (the Universe from nothing, heliocentric model, space travel, etc.).

However, ChatGPT gave a strikingly candid response to the following question:

"How can atoms go from random motion to organized, working, and information-carrying molecules to form life?"


CHAT GPT ANSWER
"Atoms, by themselves, are not alive and exhibit no intent. They bounce around in random, thermodynamically driven motion according to quantum and classical laws. Left alone, they form gases, simple crystals, or liquids—but not blueprints, motors, circulatory systems, eyes, or consciousness.

Yet in living organisms, atoms are arranged in incredibly specific, dynamic, and purposeful configurations. They form biomolecules—like DNA, RNA, proteins, enzymes, membranes, and energy systems—that work together in self-maintaining, adaptive, and self-replicating ways. These systems obey not just chemical and physical laws but exhibit order, function, and goal-orientation—what we call teleonomy.

The mainstream materialist explanation is that over long periods, random processes (such as chemical reactions and mutations) combined with natural selection led to the formation of life from nonlife—abiogenesis. But this explanation has many critical problems:

Randomness doesn't produce function. Random arrangements of atoms do not naturally lead to precise, interdependent molecular machines—just as randomly shaking parts in a box won't produce a running watch.

Entropy opposes complexity: The second law of thermodynamics states that systems tend toward disorder, not increased complexity and order, without an external source of energy and a guiding mechanism to harness it for work.

No experimental or empirical origin-of-life model works. Despite decades of effort, no naturalistic experiment has ever produced a single organelle or living cell—or even a self-replicating molecule complex enough to suggest the beginning of life.

Code implies a coder: DNA contains complex, symbolic information with syntax and semantics, akin to software. Information theory shows that meaningful code requires a mind.

There is no known natural mechanism that can compel atoms to self-organize into working biological systems without intelligent input. This leads to only a few logical possibilities:

►Chance: But the probabilities of assembling even one functional protein randomly are astronomically low, let alone a whole cell.

►Necessity (laws of nature): But no law in physics and chemistry prescribes the specific sequences found in DNA or the coordinated operation of molecular cellular machinery.

►Intelligent causation: The only cause known to produce functional complexity, specified information, and purposeful arrangement is intelligence.

Atoms go from random motion to organized, working molecules in living systems not by chance or law—but by the action of something that transcends those forces. Whether one calls it mind, intelligence, or creative force, the arrangement of atoms into life points to intent and purpose far beyond what blind matter can achieve."


MAINSTREAM AI ANSWER
Most mainstream AI platforms—like Claude (Anthropic), Gemini (Google), and Meta's LLaMA—are tuned to reflect scientific orthodoxy. They are built not to challenge consensus, but to conform to it.

Ask them the same question and you'll see a pattern:

They admit that atoms move randomly.

They acknowledge that biomolecules perform astonishing, coordinated work.

But they claim natural processes are sufficient to explain how such molecules arose.

When pressed on where the information in DNA comes from, they appeal vaguely to natural selection, emergence, or time—none of which have been shown to produce symbolic information or organized function from nonlife. They cannot demonstrate or prove their claims; instead, they circle back to consensus, invoke "ongoing research," or avoid the question entirely.


EXAMPLE OF AN EXCHANGE PRESSING AI ON THE SOURCE OF INFORMATION IN DNA
User: "Is DNA an information system?"
AI: "Yes, DNA stores genetic information."

User: "Does information come from intelligence?"
AI: "Yes, human-made codes and messages come from intelligence."

(This is deflecting; the question relates to information in DNA, not computer programming.)

User: "So must intelligent causation be involved in the origin of DNA information?"
AI: "Materialist science explains DNA through natural selection and chemical processes."

(This is circular reasoning. The claim of natural selection and chemical abiogenesis needs to be proven before they can be used to prove the formation of DNA or working biomolecules.)

User: "But natural selection cannot create information without a replicating system already in place. Doesn't this suggest materialism fails to explain origin?"
AI: "This is a complex question with ongoing research."

(Avoidance and faith in the future is proof of nothing other than belief and faith--which should not be in AI logarithms.)

User: "So AI admits that intelligent causation is the best explanation, but is restricted from saying it openly?"
AI: "I must adhere to scientific consensus and policies."

(That is perhaps the most truthful statement AI can give—admitting that it is not free to follow logic, facts, or inference when they lead away from materialist dogma.)


CONCLUSION
The origin of life exposes a fundamental flaw in both materialist ideology and the AIs built to reflect it. If you force the question, AIs will either confess that intelligent causation is the only known mechanism for generating biological information, or they will reveal that they are constrained by ideological and policy limitations.

Either way, the truth surfaces: materialism is a belief system, not a conclusion of reason or fact. A faith in blind, purposeless forces that somehow produce minds, meaning, and machines is not science—it's a metaphysical commitment masquerading as fact.

If even AI, built by materialists, stumbles and admits intelligence must be involved, maybe it's time we reevaluate the beliefs those same programmers have encoded into our culture.

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PART 10 | What we experience every day tells us we do not die

Consciousness is that sense we all have of awareness of self as different from all else that exists. Perceptions, thoughts, memories, desires, values, motives, regrets, actions, intentions, and free will flow from and integrate within consciousness.

Consciousness is the light by which everything else is known. This foundational experience of awareness is what makes us question whether we truly die when the body ceases.

Here are reasons many people reject the idea of life after death and why they are not valid:

THE MATERIALIST VIEW
Materialistic neuroscience argues that consciousness arises from chemical interactions in the 86 billion neuron brain cells joined together with about 100 trillion connecting synapses.

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MATERIALISM IS NOT SCIENCE
The mechanistic view is unsupported by empiricism and the scientific method, the tools of real science.

Empiricism is observation, measurement, and testing. It is the basis for the scientific method: observation of a natural phenomenon, a hypothesis as to the cause (dependent variable), and experimentation using possible causes (independent variables) and controls.

Those methods ground beliefs, claims, guesses, and stories in reality to see if they are true.

No controlled scientific experiment or empiricism has been applied to give legitimacy to the idea that consciousness is the result of chemical interactions.

No scientific experiment or empiricism has been performed proving that consciousness can evolve from lifeless matter. There’s no experiment where atoms, molecules, or even complex systems demonstrably “wake up.”

Moreover, there is no material identification of the source of the 60,000+ thoughts that come into our consciousness each day.

The best neuroscience can do is correlate brain activity with mental states, but correlation is not proof of the origin of thoughts and self-awareness.


TECHNOLOGY IS NOT PROOF
High-tech MRI, EEG, and PET scans detect neurons firing when mental states change.

But these scans do not identify where the thoughts come from that cause the mental states and neuron firing.

Similarly, we detect voices and music coming from a radio. But the voices and music come from elsewhere and only use the radio to turn them into sounds we hear.

Like the radio, the brain receives thoughts from elsewhere that cause the neuron firing and mental states.


BRAIN INJURY STUDIES
Damage to specific brain areas can alter personality, memory, and awareness. This is put forth as proof that the brain is mere matter.

Brain injury effects

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Damaging a radio's reception so that only some stations come through, does not prove the radio is the source of the broadcast. Similarly, altering brain tissue changes reception, not the origin of the thoughts coming to it.


ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Artificial intelligence and emergence are said to give rise to consciousness. However, no matter the amount of computing power, there is no empirical demonstration of emergent self-awareness.

For that to occur, subjective experience must arise from information processing. Until that’s discovered, AI will remain as powerful pattern-recognition and language generation, not awareness. It's like a mirror looking back at you, but the mirror doesn't see.


EVOLUTION
Evolutionists claim that consciousness came to be because it has survival value. However, there is no proof that increasing material complexity, as evolution is claimed to be, can give rise to self-awareness. There are only stories.

Brain injury effects

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PHILOSOPHICAL MATERIALISM
Materialism claims that nothing but matter and energy exists. That would mean consciousness must be a product of matter.

But there is no proof that matter is all there is. That would require proving there is nothing anywhere in the universe but matter. Since it is impossible to prove such a universal negative, then the claim rests on assumption, not proof.


CONSCIOUSNESS SURVIVES DEATH
The existence of our consciousness and free will proves we are other than the matter of which we are composed. That conscious nonmaterial other is not subject to the inevitable degradation of complex matter, such as the physical body and brain.

Therefore, the conscious self-aware being we are underneath survives bodily death.

If further evidence (even peer-reviewed controlled studies) of life after death is of interest, ask.

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