^I quoted a physicist
earlier. Here is the passage that precedes my quotation:
Take the living human brain endowed with mind and thought. Thought is one of the indispensable facts of the world. I know that I think, with a certainty which I cannot attribute to any of my physical knowledge of the world. Here then is a world fact to be investigated. The physicist brings his tools and commences systematic exploration. All that he discovers is a collection of atoms and electrons and fields of force arranged in space and time. But none of these is identical with thought. How can this collection of ordinary atoms be a thinking machine? But what knowledge have we of the nature of atoms which renders it at all incongruous that they should constitute a thinking object? Why not then attach it to thought? It seems rather silly to prefer to attach it to a so-called concrete nature inconsistent with thought, and then to wonder where the thought comes from. To put the conclusion crudely -- the stuff of the world is mind-stuff.
The hard-hat empiricists have not come to terms with the fact that physics itself clearly demonstrates that matter, energy and thought constitute a continuum. Science has been taken from them. Their historic function has come to an end. A new science, a science of the soul, is aborning, and this will serve as the foundation for all future science. In this science, the brain and its activity are the instrument of the soul, its interface with the body and its environment.