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DARWINISM REFUTED

The Example of a Shared Nervous System
Let us consider Politzer's car crash example: If the injured person's
nerves traveling from his five senses to his brain, were connected in
parallel to another person's—Politzer's, for instance—then at the instant
the bus hit that person, Politzer, sitting at his home at that same time,
would feel the impact too. Politzer would experience all the sensations
experienced by the person undergoing the accident, just as the same song
will issue from two different loudspeakers connected to the same tape
recorder. Politzer will hear the braking of the bus, feel its impact on his
body, see the sights of a broken arm and spreading blood, suffer the
aching fractures, experience entering the operation room, the hardness of
the plaster cast, and the feebleness of his healing arm.
Just like Politzer, every other person connected to that man's nerves
would experience the accident from beginning to end. If the man in the
accident fell into a coma, so would everyone. Moreover, if all the
perceptions pertaining to the car accident were recorded in some device,

A material world just as vivid
and realistic as the original can
be constructed in our brains by
means of artificial stimuli. As a
result of these artificial stimuli,
a person might imagine that
he is flying a plane when he is
actually sitting at home.

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