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Harun Yahya

that is, not the re al i ty of the noum e na, of whose na ture we have no knowl edge—is con scious ness. Space,
time, mat ter, en er gy—the whole sub stan tial world built up from our sense per cep tions—is cre at ed with in
con scious ness. The es sence of this whole phe nom e nal world is not mat ter, but con scious ness. 102

What we at tempt to de scribe as re al i ty is ac tu al ly based on con scious ness. Color, sound, smell, tas-
te, time, mat ter—in short, ev ery thing that we per ceive in the world is a form and fea ture with in con -

scious ness. Thanks to our con scious ness, we are able to con ceive all things in the uni verse.
But we can not ob serve con scious ness in the ex ter nal world. Peter Russell sets out the rea son why:

The rea son we do not find con scious ness in the world we ob serve is be cause con scious ness is not part of the
pic ture gen er at ed in our minds. 103

As Russell states, the con scious ness that per ceives the out side world is not in side the ex ter nal world
we ob serve. Therefore, it is im pos si ble for us to see and an a lyze it. Russell lik ens con scious ness to light

re flect ed on to a cin e ma screen. In the sto ry por trayed in the film, there is no ev i dence that on ly light rays
are be ing pro jec ted on to the screen. Human be ings have di rect ex pe ri ence with on ly the im age on the
screen. The light it self, with out which there can be no im age at all, goes un no ticed.
In the same way, con scious ness pos sess es no tan gi ble, vis i ble ex is tence since it is not in the ma te ri -

al world we ob serve.
Diane Ackerman has de scribed con scious ness in these terms:

The brain is si lent, dark, and dumb. It feels noth ing. It sees noth ing. . . . The brain can hurl it self across moun -
tains or in to out er space. The brain can im ag ine an ap ple and ex pe ri ence it as re al. Indeed, the brain bare ly
knows the dif fer ence be tween an im ag ined ap ple and an ob served one. . . . The brain is not the mind . . . [The

mind is] Like a ghost in a ma chine, some say. 104

Contrary to the idea that materialist scientists seek to impose
on us, the subject of consciousness is not inexplicable. The
soul bestowed on human beings by Allah is a conscious en-
tity aware of its own existence. No matter how much materia-
lists may wish to deny it, any conscious human beings will
indisputably be aware of the souls they bear.

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