Page 675 - Atlas of Creation Volume 4

Harun Yahya

What we refer to as “reality” indicates a world with a material existence outside the brain and the
senses. People have a full belief in the existence of that world, whether they happen to be observing it
or not. They are certain that they are in their own bedroom when they get up in the morning. They ima-

gine that they are in their offices and that the computers there have their own independent existence,
and that everything will still be there when they return the following morning. They assume that their
homes will be there when they return in the evening and assume the continued existence of their friends,
families, acquaintances and relatives, whether or not they can see them or talk with them. Most of the-

se experiences are repeated every day and permit no room for any doubt. On the contrary, they are of
such a quality to be thoroughly convincing.
But all these things are actually in our minds, things that we are led to experience. All we see is an
illusory copy of the outside material world of whose existence we are so certain. It is solely our percep-

tions that give rise to our world.
Susan Blackmore defines this world inside the brain:

The mind feels like a private theatre. Here I am, inside the theatre, located roughly somewhere inside my he-
ad and looking out through my eyes. But this is a multi-sensational theatre. So I experience touches, smells,
sounds, and emotions as well, and I can use my imagination too—conjuring up sights and sounds to be se-

en as though on a mental screen by inner eye or heard by my inner ear. All these are the “contents of my
consciousness,” and “I” am the audience of one who experiences them. 67

The world we observe is merely a copy. An amusement park full of lights is only a dup-
licated image forming in the brain, whose source is simply electrical signals. The voices
of the people around us, our relatives and birds are similarly, duplicate sounds arising

within the brain, whose source is just electrical signals. The taste and smell of a piece
of fruit we eat are duplicate tastes and smells forming in the brain. It is impossible for
us to eat the original of the fruit. The source of all the features of the fruit in our bra-
ins is, again, electrical signals.
You have never felt the true heat of the Sun, the actual coolness of the sea nor the

coldness of an ice cube. Because you can never have direct experience of the Sun, the
sea or ice, and the effects they have on you are simply electrical signals.

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