Page 689 - Atlas of Creation Volume 4

Harun Yahya

There is an ex traor di na ry par al lel cir cuit in the brain. A sin gle da ta byte can reach 100,000 neu rons at the same
time. This makes the brain hun dreds of thou sands of times quick er than the fast est known com put er. It is im -
pos si ble for us to car ry this out elec tron i cal ly. 94

Therefore, com par ing the brain to a com put er is too fac ile, and does not do full jus tice to the brain’s su -
pe ri or ca pac i ty. Gerald M. Edelman of fers this state ment:

First, the world cer tain ly is not pre sent ed to the brain like a piece of com put er tape con ta ining an un am big u ous
se ries of sig nals. Nonetheless, the brain . . . me di ates learn ing and mem o ry and si mul ta ne ous ly reg u lates a host
of bod i ly func tions. The abil i ty of the nerv ous sys tem to car ry out per cep tu al cat e go ri za tion of dif fer ent sig nals
for sight, sound, and so forth, di vid ing them in to co her ent class es with out ar ranged code, is cer tain ly spe cial and
is still un matched by com put ers. We do not pres ent ly un der stand ful ly how this cat e go ri za tion is done . . . 95

The sys tem in the brain is lit er al ly per fect; what we are re fer ring to here is the in ter ac tions of neu rons,

with ax ons and den drites re ceiv ing and trans mit ting da ta with in a com plex sys tem. But what is the source
of the “out side world” in the brain and the fea tures that make hu man be ings hu man? Could neu rons and
the brain they com prise—the pro ducts of the com bin ing of blind and un con scious at oms, be the source of
such ad vanced con scious ness?

Professor Vilayanur Ramachandran has this to say:

Even though it is com mon knowl edge, it nev er ceas es to amaze me that all the rich ness of our men tal life—all
our feel ings, our emo tions, our thoughts, our am bi tions, our love lives, our re li gious sen ti ments and even what
each of us re gards as his or her own in ti mate pri vate self—is sim ply the ac tiv i ty of these lit tle specks of jel ly in
our heads, in our brains. 96

This is a baf fling state of af fairs for ma te ri al ists, who look some where in the brain for all those el e ments

that make hu man be ings hu man—joys, doubts, be liefs and per son al iden ti ty. They main tain that emo tions
such as the hap pi ness when we greet a friend, the ex cite ment when we see a pup py, be lief, feel ing, de cid -
ing, sen ti men tal i ty, re joic ing and sor row—all stem from neu rons. However, sci en tists and neu rol o gists who
in ves ti gate the brain have fail ed to find the source of any of these. For that rea son, they have come up with
a new def i ni tion, say ing that the source of what makes hu man be ings hu man is “con scious ness.”

But what is con scious ness? And how can ma te ri al ists ac count for it?

Each neuron in the brain makes up to 10,000 contacts with other neurons. The places where
they contact are known as synapses, which are the places where information is exchanged.
The number of the possible permutations and combinations of this cerebral exchange exce-
eds that of all the elementary particles in the known universe.

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