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THE MIRACLE IN THE CELL
























                                                 Someone looking through a win-
                                                 dow is actually seeing images of
                                                   the landscape that form in his
                                                       brain, rather than the out-
                                                             side world itself.






                                                 LIGHT



                   ELECTRICAL
                     SIGNAL
                                                            Light reaching the eyes
                                                               is transformed into
                                                               electrical signals by
                                                              the optical cells and
                                                                transmitted to the
                                         AN IMAGE OF A LAND-
                                          SCAPE FORMED BY      visual centre at the
                                         ELECTRICAL SIGNALS      rear of the brain.
                                                                  The "conscious-
                                                               ness" in our brains
                                                              perceives these elec-
                                                               trical signals as the
                                                                      landscape.








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