Are mental states an attribute of matter ??

Are our thoughts and feelings--- our hopes and our dreams--
based solely in atoms and molecules ?

Even more remarkably, here is a mass of tissue that is the object
of it's own inquiry.

The brain is an organ that seeks to understand itself.
It almost sounds like magic.. And in a way it is.

For the explanation is, indeed , supernatural.

It is found , as we've seen, in the realm of spirit.

Some neurobiologists are called dualists because they
mantain that the mind and the brain or two different things,
that the qualitys that make us human --- our thoughts our feelings
cannot be explained by physical matter alone..

One of them is Sir John Ecceles , neuroscientist and noble laureate in medicine.
He offers this asssessment , based on a lifetime of brain study ;

" I do not believe that the mind has it's own existence , it's own independence , apart from the brain..
It works intimately with the brain, but it is superior to the brain..


There is something nonphysical and nonmaterial present within
the brain that produces mind and consciousness...

It is the human spirit... No other interpertation is logically defensible...