Traditionally people believe man thinks with his brain, and this process is mediated by the use of languages. Recently researchers at McGill University discovered that deaf signers, contrary to common belief, exhibit the same patterns of mental activity in the same sites of the brain as ordinary people do when speaking= . This can not prove that man's thoughts are generated from his spirit, but it at least showed man's thinking can be carried out in multiple forms, that is, the human brain is capable of processing thoughts through different channels.
Individuals having telepathic abilities can tell what a person has in his mind even though he speaks a foreign language. This shows that man's thoughts and languages are two different things. Man's thinking can occur without being mediated by language. From another perspective, people have succeeded in training some animals to acquire certain skills. The thoughts the animals have in their mind while carrying out these tasks are even less related to man's languages. Thus we can infer that man's brain and thoughts can be uncoupled.
I am of the opinion that the relationship between man's brain and spirit is like that between a computer's hardware and software. With only the hardware (brain) but no software (spirit) installed, this computer can not perform any tasks; Only with the installation of necessary software, this computer can do certain things (much like a person waking up). And this software, just like a spirit, is intangible in our dimension.
Through the teachings of Master Li, we learned that one's ideas are actually generated from his spirit. People's brains can only process this information, translating it into speech, facial expression and gestures enabling others to understand. Although cumbersome, our modern science is verifying Falun Dafa from all different aspects.
A Falun Dafa Practitioner
= Discoveries of the McGill researchers can be found on the following web pages:
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/short/97/25/13961
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