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Harun Yahya

The Oxford University psychology writer Susan Blackmore comments:

Crick* says that he wants to find the correlates of ‘the vivid picture of the
world we see in front of our eyes’ or what Damasio calls the ‘movie-in-the-
brain.’ But if the visual world is a grand illusion, then they will never be ab-
le to find what they are looking for because neither the movie-in-the-brain

nor the vivid picture exist in the brain. They are both part of the illusion. 55

According to Blackmore, our feeling of direct experience is simply an
illusion. In fact, even the concept of illusion fails to fully clarify the positi-
on. An illusion is something that is detected when we compare events oc-
The brain
curring in our minds with the physical reality. However, here human be-
ings do not have direct experience of the world outside—in other words,

of any physical realities. These are all things produced by the mind; and
the mind can never perceive external reality. These are realities belonging
to us alone.

That being the case, what is happening is not an illusion, and it would
be more accurate to describe it as a phantom.
The world we possess is formed solely in our perceptions. There is no-
body else who sees this world as we do, who experiences the same per-

* The British biophysicist who won the Nobel Prize for his co-discovery of the double helix structure of the DNA molecule Neurons

When we look at a book, a pencil or a human being, a different nervous activity goes into ope-
ration for each object perceived. The higher brain centers are informed about what we are loo-
king at. However, the countless chemical processes involved here are not by themselves suffi-
cient to account for sight, because there is no little person observing the images in the brain.
It is the human soul that observes the external world and draws significance from it.

Neurotransmitters
Synaptic vesicles

Synaptic cleft Receptor
Cell body

Axon Dendrite Ion
Synaptic ending Mitochondrion channel

Presynaptic
Synaptic vesicles
membrane

Postsynaptic
vesicle

Presynaptic membrane
Postsynaptic membrane

Synaptic cleft

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