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From : hellgas0
Added: Jun 28, 2008
We've historically tended to separate mental and spiritual processes from biological processes. We had no choice. Scientific technology that could examine body parts and functions couldn't observe the biology of thought and belief. Philosophers and theologians thus explored a disembodied mind and soul, and biologists focused on body systems. Mind and brain merged during the second half of the 20th century, as scientists gradually discovered brain correlates for such mental functions as learning/memory, logic/reason, decision/behavior, and even emotion (an especially difficult system to understand). Brain imaging technology became more powerful during the last decade of the 20th century, and scientists used it to seek solutions to the deeper mysteries of consciousness, the Holy Grail of the neurosciences. At the turn of the century, world-renowned neuroscientists Antonio Damasio (1999) and Nobel Laureate Gerald Edelman (2000) published separate but related acclaimed theories of the neurobiology of consciousness. The 21st century thus began with an ascendant Biology. Biologists completed the Genome Project - an explanation of the objective nature of life, and they also discovered the neurobiology of consciousness - an explanation of the subjective meaning of life. From the BBC documentary, "God on the Brain": http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2003/godonbrain.shtml
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