Sunday, July 5, 2026

Consciousness, Luke 16, current science, etc...

 

Wednesday, June 3, 2026

Chuck Missler Angels pt.3 "The Dark Side".


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"And uh the rich man and Lazarus 

in in uh 

Luke 16

 are a place 

where we learn 

most of these conceptions 

that the Lord Jesus taught us. 


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And uh the rich man lifted up his eyes 

and could he sense he could see 


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the bosom of Abraham a far off. 

So strangely he is in the dark place,

 the bad place, 

but he's aware. 


He has consciousness.


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He's aware and 

he knows that 

the the u that 

Lazarus is in the good place. 

So he somehow

is conscious of all of that. 


The man in Hades, though, the


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rich man who go dies 

and goes to Hades is fully conscious.


 We recognize that from the 

By the way, that's not a parable. 

That's an actual event. 


Chapter 10:

In The Rich Man and Lazarus Luke 16


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In parable, 

people don't have names in here. 

We have a specific name in Lazarus. 

Jesus describing some specifics. 


And the man 

in Hades had a memory.


(Every thought

you have ever thought

gave off:

"Brain waves".

It's a form of guess what?

ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGY.

Guess what?

It cant be destroyed.

This is what physics says.

It is residing somewhere

waiting on you.)


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 He was able to speak. 

He was in deep pain 

and he had intense desires.


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His eternal destiny was irrevocably fixed. 

He understood that. 

He never questioned it. 

He never felt it was unjust.

 Strangely enough. 


(Everybody gets exactly what they deserve.

Nobody gest ripped off.

Nobody.)


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In fact, he knew 

just what he was experiencing 

was fair and just. 

And he alludes to that.


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He also knew

what his brothers needed to do to do 

to a avoid his own fate to repent. 

He pleads for someone to get


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that message to his brothers 

so they wouldn't uh inherit the the fate 

that he is suffering. 

And he was not yet in hell


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by the way. 


(That was just the waiting room

so to speak.)


He was in Hades. 

Gehenna is yet future on his situation. 

In fact, that guy asking for


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a touch of water 

is still waiting today for that."



Brain activity under anesthesia 

challenges what we know about consciousness

sciencedaily 06/28/26


"Summary:

The unconscious brain appears to be far more capable than scientists once believed. Researchers found that patients under general anesthesia could still process language at a sophisticated level, distinguishing nouns, verbs, and adjectives while listening to stories. Even more remarkably, neural activity showed signs of predicting upcoming words before they were heard. The results challenge traditional ideas about consciousness and hint at new possibilities for brain-computer interfaces."


"Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered that the human brain can continue performing surprisingly advanced language tasks even when a person is fully unconscious under general anesthesia. The findings, published in Nature, challenge long held assumptions about the relationship between consciousness and cognition. They also offer new insights that could shape future research on memory, language, and brain-computer interfaces."


"Our findings show that the brain is far more active and capable during unconsciousness than previously thought," said Dr. Sameer Sheth, professor and Cullen Foundation Endowed chair of neurosurgery and a McNair Scholar at Baylor. "Even when patients are fully anesthetized, their brains continue to analyze the world around them."


"The Brain Continued Processing Language

The first experiment exposed patients to a series of repeating tones with occasional unexpected sounds mixed in. The researchers found that neurons in the hippocampus consistently detected these unusual tones. Even more interesting, the brain became better at recognizing them over time, suggesting that learning or neural plasticity was still taking place during anesthesia."


"The researchers then increased the complexity of the experiment by playing short stories while continuing to record brain activity. The hippocampus showed clear evidence of processing language in real time. Patterns of neural activity revealed that the brain could distinguish different parts of speech, including nouns, verbs, and adjectives."


"The team also made another surprising discovery. Neural signals could be used to predict upcoming words before they were spoken."


"The brain appears to anticipate what comes next in a story, even without conscious awareness," said Sheth, who is also Director of The Gordon and Mary Cain Pediatric Neurology Research Foundation Laboratories within the Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's Hospital."


"This kind of predictive coding is something we associate with being awake and attentive, yet it's happening here in an unconscious state," said Dr. Benjamin Hayden, professor of neurosurgery at Baylor."


"Rethinking Consciousness

The findings suggest that important cognitive abilities, including language comprehension and prediction, may not depend on conscious awareness. Instead, consciousness itself may arise from communication across multiple brain regions rather than from activity within a single area such as the hippocampus."


"The researchers caution that the findings should be interpreted carefully. The study examined only one type of general anesthesia, so the results may not apply to other unconscious states such as sleep or coma. In addition, the research focused on a single brain region, and it remains unclear how broadly these processes occur throughout the brain."


"This work pushes us to rethink what it means to be conscious," said Sheth. "The brain is doing much more behind the scenes than we fully understand."


Maybe its creator 

knew a thing or two about it huh?

Maybe?

Best guess.

Rational, logical brain

God gave ya.



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