IRREDUCIBLE MIND: Why Can’t You Hold Your Five Best Childhood Memories in Your Hands?
Cold-Case Christianity’s J. Warner Wallace talks about the huge significance of memories. (Screenshot from YouTube).
(9:22 VIEWING) — Grab a piece of paper and a pen — or open a new tab in Word or Safari and grab your mouse — then take a little time to think of the five best memories of your life.
Got’em? Bet that put some smiles on your face! Okay, now, write or type them for future reference.
Before you file that piece of paper or tab wherever you save such things, consider this question:
You’ve identified the five best memories of your life. Can you take each one of those cherished memories out of your brain and hold them in your hand? Can you measure their length or weight? How about describing their color and texture?
No? You can’t pick up those memories in your hand or put them beside a tape measure to determine their dimensions? And why is that? Because memories are non-material, they have no weight, no length or width, and no height. But you know they are real, so how they can be real if there is nothing more to reality than the material world in which we all exist?
Check out the following 9:22 video from Cold Case Christianity as former NBC “Dateline” cold-case homicide detective J. Warner Wallace considers the huge significance of the fact that our minds are not the same thing as our brains:
My word, 9:22 to state what’s obvious to anyone who’s ever owned a dog.