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DARWINISM REFUTED

Someone looking at a
landscape actually sees
it in the pitch-black
visual center at the rear
of the brain. But who
is it who looks at this
landscape in the brain,
who takes pleasure
from what he sees,
who recognizes the
buildings he sets eyes
on, and who enjoys
gazing on the bright
sky? Since brain cells or
atoms are devoid of all
such characteristics as
seeing, hearing and
enjoying anything,
who watches and feels
all these things in the
brain?

Renowned cognitive neuroscientist Karl Pribram focused on this
important question, relevant to the worlds of both science and philosophy,
about who the perceiver is:
Philosophers since the Greeks have speculated about the "ghost" in the
machine, the "little man inside the little man" and so on. Where is the I—the
entity that uses the brain? Who does the actual knowing? Or, as Saint Francis
of Assisi once put it, "What we are looking for is what is looking." 397
This book in your hand, the room you are in—in brief, all the images
before you—are perceived inside your brain. Is it the blind, deaf,
unconscious component atoms that view these images? Why did some
atoms acquire this quality, whereas most did not? Do our acts of thinking,
comprehending, remembering, being delighted, and everything else
consist of chemical reactions among these atoms' molecules?
There is no sense in looking for will in atoms. Clearly, the being who
sees, hears, and feels is a supra-material being, "alive," who is neither
matter nor an image. This being interacts with the perceptions before it by
using the image of our body.
This being is the soul.

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