Ponder this scenario:
An alien "scientist" totally unfamiliar with the human and its anatomy comes to earth and sees a human sleeping. It sees no other humans around, so has no frame of reference to evaluate this creature nor understand what it is doing.
The alien slices into the man’s skull and pulls out the brain. Not possessing any internal organs of its own at all, the alien wonders about this mound of grayish wrinkled flesh.
He holds up the brain with his malleable fin-like appendage and examines it. He takes it back to his ship’s laboratory and begins to pull it apart, cut into it, and examine it under the microscope. Without anything but this 3 lb. mass of tissue to go by, what can this alien determine about the human brain and human consciousness if he were able to keep it alive while examining it?
We ourselves know within this wrinkled gray blob that a billion things are taking place such as:
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Thoughts are being generated, accommodated, and assimilated.
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Emotions are roiling up and our reactions to them are being displayed.·
We recognize a sunset and translate it into awesome beauty.·
We see our lover and feel joy and tenderness.·
We feel alive and exhilarated as we walk along the beach.·
We read a book and are moved and educated by the words of others.· We make decisions, create works of art, listen to music, play games.
Just because this alien creature does not have the frame of reference nor the tools to see into the depths of the invisible realm of thought and consciousness, does that mean thought and consciousness doesn’t exist? Will he look at that brain (the universe) and see nothing but a physical conglomeration of stars, planets, galaxies, black holes, comets, asteroids, cosmic gasses, etc. etc. and say "that’s all this is", a physical mechanism of cosmic movement.
Just because he does not see the consciousness and the interplay of thought and feeling, does not mean there isn’t something invisibly wonderful taking place between the "synapses" connecting it all.
I believe in the Eternal One…..a creator of unimaginable glory. If I can look at the human brain and see only the gray flesh, the firing of neurons and the electrical and chemical interplay taking place, but cannot see the thoughts, the emotions, the understandings, the creativity, inspiration, and the CONSCIOUSNESS itself resulting from this interplay, then I am blind to the greater invisible realm generated by this "brain".
The Universe is a macrocosm, imo, of the human brain. It’s a physical mechanism, but it is housing a Consciousness beyond anything we can imagine (as yet).
This is how I see The Creator, The Eternal One, the Universal Intelligent Force…..God. Why does that sound implausible?