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This is an excerpt from an article that ran in the scientific american. It is from an interview with Thomas Edison. I took it from a book called "the consciousness of the atom" released by Alice Bailey. It addresses what Doobah47 is questioning.
He states the following:
1 Life, like matter is indestructible
2 Our bodies are composed of Myriads of infinitesimal entities, each in itself a unit of life; just as an atom is composed of myriads of electrons.
3 The Human being acts as an assemblage rather than a unit; the body and mind express the vote or voice of the life entities.
4 The life entities build according to a plan. If a part of the life organism be mutilated, they rebuild exactly as before
5 Science admits the difficulty of drawing the line between the inanimate and the animate; perhaps the life entities extend their activities into crystals and chemicals…
6 The life entities live forever; so that to this extent at least the eternal life which many of us hope for is a reality.
Consciousness in some form exists on every level. Crystals grow and there is order to the natural world down to the infinitesimal. The broadest definition of consciousness is "response to contact" which the water and the Na and Cl all exhibit. They respond to eachother in the same way every time and if the compounds which have a greater afinity are put into solution the bonds of the Hydrogen and Oxygen are broken. When the interlopers are removed then the original bonds can be remade without interference.
One of the posters really took issue with the statement I made about the mind creating the brain and it is over simplified at that level but consciousness does create the organism. If you believe that life starts at conception then the consciouness of the new baby is creating its own form, including its brain. If you believe that life starts at birth than it is the consciousness of the mother that is creating the vehicle for the baby's soul (conciousness) to enhabit. Mind (to get back to the thread proper) is the first manifestation of consciousness, and in the human being it is the bridging of the lower concrete mind of the empiricist with the abstract mind of the visionary which is the goal of meditiation (mediation). That is when you have an Einstein. He claimed that he did not come by his understanding of the universe through his ability to reason.
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