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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

sensed by the tongue, an odor sensed by the nose, a color and shape sensed
by the eye; and only these features of it can be subject to examination and
assessment. Science can never know the physical world. 393

It is impossible for us to reach the original of the physical world
outside our brain. All objects we're in contact with are actually collection
of perceptions such as sight, hearing, and touch. Throughout our lives, by
processing the data in the sensory centers, our brain confronts not the
"originals" of the matter existing outside us, but rather copies formed
inside our brain. We can never know what the original forms of these
copies are like.

The "External World" Inside Our Brain
As a result of these physical facts, we come to the following
indisputable conclusion: We can never have direct experience of any of the
things we see, touch, hear, and name "matter," "the world" or "the
universe." We only know their copies in our brain and can never reach the
original of the matter outside our brain. We merely taste, hear and see an
image of the external world formed in our brain. In fact, someone eating
an apple confronts not the actual fruit, but its perceptions in the brain.
What that person considers to be an apple actually consists of his brain's
perception of the electrical information concerning the fruit's shape, taste,
smell, and texture. If the optic nerve to the brain were suddenly severed,
the image of the fruit would instantly disappear. Any disconnection in the
olfactory nerve traveling from receptors in the nose to the brain would
interrupt the sense of smell completely. Simply put, that apple is nothing
but the interpretation of electrical signals by the brain.
Also consider the sense of distance. The empty space between you
and this page is only a sense of emptiness formed in your brain. Objects
that appear distant in your view also exist in the brain. For instance,
someone watching the stars at night assumes that they are millions of
light-years away, yet the stars are within himself, in his vision center.
While you read these lines, actually you are not inside the room you
assume you're in; on the contrary, the room is inside you. Perceiving your
body makes you think that you're inside it. However, you must remember
that you have never seen your original body, either; you have always
seen a copy of it formed inside your brain.

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