The commentary left off with the startling claim that humans have two brains. However, before the two-brain theory is examined, the “two-mind theory” should be explored!
Of course, there is “heart rate
variability” (HRV) wherein there is a parasympathetic nervous system; the
nervous system handles inputs from the internal organs, and a sympathetic nervous
system that reflects responses to things like stress and exercise, and that increases
the heart rate and blood pressure.
However, that mind goes beyond
the parasympathetic and sympathetic to include the sub-conscious and even the
unconscious.
“Sympathetic” means the nervous
system that is controlled by the brain are things mediated by the unconscious
mind through the nervous system. What if you had to think in order to
grow nails (parasympathetic) or increase the heart rate (sympathetic). Then you
would be the “god” that controls who you are!
Science has it that the right side of the brain controls so many of such things. That is not to say that a person with the two brains severed, the cutting of the corpus callosum, has no heart rate nor that the fingernails fail to grow, but that the two brains work in tandem for efficiency.
The human brain is
actually two brains, each capable of advanced mental functions. When the
cerebrum is divided surgically, it is as if the cranium contained two separate
spheres of consciousness.
Yes, there are two functional
processors, each with their controller, “grey matter includes regions of the
brain involved in muscle control, and sensory perception such as seeing and
hearing, memory, emotions, speech, decision-making, and self-control” (
On the other hand, white matter
relays, regulates, and coordinates communications between two brain regions.
Memories are stored in the
hippocampus region of the brain. Humans and other mammals, for the most part, are
the kinds with hippocampus regions in both hemispheres of the brain. With that
said, most other kinds do not have two hippocampus regions and their memories
are much less.
The Creator planned it that way… “God
said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the
cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth
upon the earth” (Gen 1:26). Humans have dominion over the other kinds surely
because God gave them two hippocampus regions. Although hippo literally
means “horse,” its root means “swift.” “Campus”
comes from the shape of that region — a fish.
Humans have memory, not only
short-term memory that can be quickly retrieved recent events, but longtime memory
which may never be retrieved or retrieved only with difficulty. That makes
mankind dominant above the other creatures.
Memories are encoded for retrieval
and perhaps so that others cannot retrieve the thoughts of another.
Early “man,” not really a “man”
but another extinct kind — the Neanderthals — are now only history. Why did
they face extinction and the kind most like them did not?
Science calls it a “gene mutation”
that caused the man to have dominion
Neanderthals were indeed primates
but not human. It makes more sense that they devolved from humans rather than
the other way around! Who was there to know the truth? God alone! Osborne says
that the improvement was by “mutation,” allowing humans to have more neurons in
the neocortex — “an area of the brain involved in cognitive development” (ibid).
Human beings are homo sapiens — “wise
men” or in other words, “cognitive Adams.” Adam was dominant possibly because
of two rational reasons, according to science; (1) the hippocampus and (2) the
new and improved, over the other kinds, neocortex.
The neocortex “is a set of layers
of the mammalian cerebral cortex involved in higher-order brain functions such
as sensory perception, cognition, generation of motor commands, spatial
reasoning and language”
Can you not see? Science is
discovering what how God made all the kinds. Their observation is that homo
sapiens are the dominant species, just as God revealed. Rather than accept the
Creation account, they go with the mutation theory. God must get credit
when credit is due Him!
Is it possible that the two independent hippocampus regions each store different types of information? Yes, it does! It is called “lateralization.”
The hippocampus is
essential for certain forms of learning and memory, both in humans and in
rodents, and also plays an important role in navigation. The left and right
mammalian hippocampi comprise the same anatomical areas and directional
connectivity, and yet in the human hippocampus,
task-related activity may be localized to only one hemisphere. This
lateralization may enable the left and right hippocampus to support
complementary functions in human episodic memory, with left hippocampal
activity associated with an egocentric, sequential representation of space but
greater activity in the right hippocampus when an allocentric representation is
used. It has been suggested that human hippocampal asymmetry is primarily
dictated by external asymmetry—namely, the left hemispheric involvement in
language processing and the stronger contribution of the right hemisphere to
visuospatial attention, supported by observations of left hippocampal dominance
when semantic information is most task-relevant, compared with right
hippocampal dominance when spatial information becomes more pertinent.
Tasks are what the right brain is
said to do whereas the left brain is said to judge the activity; it is the decision-making
world that controls the action, or behavioral, world.
Lateralization is an
activity. They are two opposing organs that complement each other. (I have
written of that many times before.)
Eve was an “Adam” as well, a
female of her husband’s kind. Her gender was “Eve.” As it turns out, Eve was of
a different mind than Adam. Her thoughts were much different. Her husband
was cautious and cognitive. Hers was egocentric and active. He would have been
called “left brain” and she “right brain.” They were married and became one
flesh. They were each one-brained, or single-minded, but when they came
together as one flesh, perhaps then they became double-minded and maybe
even with two brains.
By coincidence? Another meaning
of the name, “Eve” is “Symbiosis.” She was called “Eve” for a reason. “Because
she was the mother of all living” (Gen 3:20). Because of sin, perhaps, Eve did mutate,
or degenerate. No longer of one mind with Adam, she became symbiotic — “the
living together in close association of two different kinds of organisms”
What was the close association
that came about? Because of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, Eve became
double-minded and what’s more her identity was altered. She alone had the
wherewithal to pass along mitochondrial DNA. Eve was symbiotic; she had the
cunning of the Beast, with the addition of his “Image” (Hebrew; Nahas.) No
longer was she of a “good” Image (selem) but was both humane and
inhumane in that the alien being imbued her with its genome in
conjunction with the Genome of God (Nahas).
It is ambiguous whether the
genetics of Eve came from Satan, or not, but it is for certain that Cain was of
the Wicked One because scriptures says so (1 John 3:12).
Whatever got into Eve, God corrected,
to wit: “Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins,
and clothed them” (Gen 3:21).
They were in a sense, regenerated.
God corrected their genetics, and they became right with Him again. Afterward,
God preserved them from the wiles of the Devil (The Book of Adam and Eve and
Their Conflicts with Satan). Their new flesh would house their larger
brains if they then in fact had two.
Think not of flesh alone, but
single-mindedness. Thereafter, Eve longed for her nature before the fall; the
nature that God passed to her through “lateralization.” On the first day, as
written before, the two received their immortal souls and minds before the
foundation of the world… before their fleshes were made as well.
Eve had become doubleminded, and
she thereafter had two “lords” — the “LORD GOD” and the “lord” that was the nahas
image.
Note that Eve was not named “Eve”
until after she sinned. Before that time, God was the Creator of all living.
After sin, Eve gave to her “lord,” not a “man” (Adam), but an “‘is” in
the Hebrew — an “extant”
The woman, Eve, having no faculty
of judgement prior to sin (innocence), lateralized that from the Wicked
One to Cain. Cain got the mind of the Wicked One — judgment — from the evil
nature of the Tree of Knowledge. It seems to be more than a tree, but a “family
tree” — a genetic pedigree with God as the root of one mind (Col 1:1) and the
Wicked One as the “root of all evil” (1 Tim 6:10) and of another mind.
Note that when God blew the
breath of life into the “nostrils” (literally forehead)) of Adam, it was
the Mind of God that “inflated” the new being. Having no fleshly father or
mother, would Adam have two minds? No, he was single-minded with the Mind of
God.
The lower creatures are
different. They are of a lesser rank than either angels or mankind. They do not
have two hemispheres as mammals do. God created them all with a single brain.
Why would He change course with Adam? Adam was generated glorious. The Glory of
God is both His Existence — His Genome — and His Mind. (It should be noted that
all mammals became double-minded and many were apparently cast out along with
Adam and Eve.)
Why would God make Adam not in
His Image? Goodness is of one mind in the manner of God who alone is “Good.”
Why would God make Adam doubleminded? Why would God provide for Adam two
brains, especially when the left brain is to judge all things? I submit that
man was created both single-minded and single brained. He was created like His
Existence — the cosmos — which has one spherical dome that from anywhere seems
to be two hemispheres.
Although it is conjecturing that
God created man with one brain, it is not conjecture that He created man with
single-mindedness. Repeated from before, James said, “A double minded man is
unstable in all his ways” and added to that “Cleanse your hands, ye sinners;
and purify your hearts, ye double minded” (Jas 4:8). Change your natures,
James implied; edit who you are genetically!
Doublemindedness is sinfulness
which is coming “short of the Glory of God” (Rom 2:23). God did not make man
with a double mind but with His Mind alone. Why would mankind need two brains
that they now have, as science says, if there was no knowledge of evil to judge
between it and goodness?
It would be interesting to find out
if those with their corpus callosum cut would have useful judgement or
would they do things instinctively.
Righteousness was meant to be
instinctive because Adam was endowed with the Mind of God. God engenders the
sinner with righteousness (“born again”). As such, the cranium of Adam was a
sanctuary for the Mind. No wonder Golgotha is the “place of the skull” — the
place of Adam’s cranium, as it turns out! [1]
Adam had one cranium, perhaps
because that was all that was required; with him made in the Image of the Existence
— the cosmos — had need for only one dome for one existence, certainly not the
internal existence with two brains that we all now have!
Because we are “doubleminded”
means that to be “single-minded” requires persuasion to judge rightly, to wit: “Then
(King Herod) Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a
Christian” (Acts 26:28). Agrippa’s left brain failed to lateralize proper judgement
as his left brain transmitted dangerous information as “good” to his right
brain. Again, the Wicked One deceived a man with the alleged brain of God to
follow his instincts that were from his progenitor, the Devil.
If Agrippa had been single-minded
with the Mind of God alone, then to trust God would have been instinctual, rather
than cognitive. His mind would have automatically and unconsciously done the
right thing using only his right brain.
This concludes the commentary,
however, research this more using scripture. The Bible is full of the deception
and correction of the mind!
Is it mere coincidence, “Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness” (Psalm 74:14); that the Serpent “Leviathan” has numerous heads, two or more, and that for each head, there is a brain to match?
(picture credit: The Conversation; "A Creature with One Brain")
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