Are individuals controlled by a supercomputer? According to physiology, the human brain is the basis of thought and action and, in addition to storing knowledge, influences the body. This brain is claimed to be the source of intelligence, consciousness, reason, and all movement. But in spite of voluminous research, physical scientists feel they still have not fathomed its depths and complexities.
Christian Science maintains that all intelligence and consciousness come from God. Power and action stem from the divine Mind—supreme, infinite intelligence. This Mind that is God conceives man and the universe and permanently controls what it creates. Man resides in the Mind that created him; Mind does not reside in man. From this standpoint any individual is capable of reversing beliefs about the brain that would limit his ability to reason, or his movement, his consciousness, his intelligence.
A basic thesis of Christian Science is that Life, being God, is not in matter. This premise leads to the conclusions that a matter-based brain cannot be the source of one's life or the conditioner governing it. The prime condition of human life is consciousness. Material belief claims that consciousness resides in the material brain. If the brain malfunctions or is struck a heavy blow, unconsciousness may be the result.
