Infinity and the Brain: A Unified Theory of Mind, Matter and God

Dudley, Glenn

ISBN 10: 1557788073 / ISBN 13: 9781557788078

Published by Paragon House, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Infinity and the Brain: A Unified Theory of Mind, Matter and God
• Publisher: Paragon House
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1557788073
• ISBN 13: 9781557788078
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

Infinity and the Brain offers a unique and logical solution to the mind-body problem. The book proposes that the relationship between mind and body is understandable only to the measure that we and our brains are unceasingly dependent upon the immanence of God. Part I explains why this is true based on how all physical structure tends to dissipate, thus moving toward its own nonexistence-a process that links the stability of all organized matter, including the brain, to the infinitude of God. The book explains why, were it not for the expectable wholeness of an image and a concomitant restraint of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, matter itself would be impossible. Part II theorizes that we have necessarily been made "in the image" of God if we are to explain the brain's homuncular design, a design by which the release of structurally-bound energy-in the incipient absence of an image-parallels an accelerating movement toward infinitude. The only requirement is that the universe must be fundamentally God-centered and personal-so personal that perception is literally equivalent to the efficiency by which an organism expects and habituates to its own finitude as contrasted with the infinitude of God.

About the Author

Glenn Dudley became interested in the mind-body problem as an undergraduate student at the University of Colorado while pursuing a pre-med major and elective studies in physics, philosophy, and Judeo-Christian theology. He received his M.D. degree in 1969, and after doing a combined psychiatry/medicine internship, he completed a two-year program at MIT's Neurosciences Research Program. Then, sponsored by the Department of Psychiatry at Tufts School of Medicine in Boston, he spent a year studying mind-body aspects of cancer. From 1975 to his retirement in 1998, Dr. Dudley was a primary care physician, emphasizing spirit-mind-body relationships.