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food tastes to you is the same as how it tastes to anyone else; or that your
perception of a voice is the same as what another's when he hears that
same voice. Along the same lines, science writer Lincoln Barnett wrote
that "no one can ever know whether his sensation of red or of Middle C is
the same as another man's." 392
Our sense of touch is no different. When we handle an object, all the
information that helps us recognize it is transmitted to the brain by
sensitive nerves on the skin. The feeling of touch is formed in our brain.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, we perceive sensations of touch not at
our fingertips or on our skin, but in our brain's tactile center. As a result of
the brain's assessment of electrical stimulations coming to it from the skin,
we feel different sensations pertaining to objects, such as hardness or
softness, heat or cold. From these stimulations, we derive all details that
help us recognize an object. Concerning this important fact, consider the
thoughts of B. Russell and L. J. J. Wittgenstein, two famous philosophers:
For instance, whether a lemon truly exists or not and how it came to exist
cannot be questioned and investigated. A lemon consists merely of a taste

Bundles of light coming from an object fall on the retina upside-down. Here, the
image is converted into electrical signals and transmitted to the center of vision
at the back of the brain. Since the brain is insulated from light, it is impossible
for light to reach the center of vision. This means that we view a vast world of
light and depth in a tiny spot that is insulated from light. Even at the moment
when we feel the light and heat of a fire, the inside of our brain is pitch dark and
its temperature never changes.

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