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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

and repeatedly transmitted to someone, the bus would knock this person
down again and again.
But which one of these two buses hitting those people is real? To this
question, materialist philosophers have no consistent answer. The correct
answer is that all of them experience the car accident, in all its details, in
their own minds.
The same principle applies to our other examples. If the nerves of
materialist Johnson, who felt pain in his foot after delivering a sound kick
to a stone, were connected to a second individual, that person too would
feel himself kick the same stone and feel the same pain.
So, which stone is the real one? Again, materialist philosophy falls
short of giving a consistent answer. The correct, consistent answer is that
both Johnson and the second person have fully experienced kicking the
stone, in their minds.
In our previous example, let's make an exchange: Connecting the
nerves of the man hit by the bus to Politzer's brain, and the nerves of
Politzer, sitting in his house, to brain of that man who had the accident. In
this case, Politzer will think that a bus has hit him, but the man actually hit
by the bus will never feel the impact and think that he is sitting in
Politzer's house. The very same logic can be applied to the example
involving the stone.
As is evident, it is not possible for man to transcend his senses and
break free of them. In this respect, a man's soul can be subjected to all
kinds of representations, although it has no physical body and no material
existence and there are no material surroundings. It is not possible for a
person to realize this because he assumes these perfectly three-
dimensional images to be real and is absolutely certain of their existence,
because everybody depends on the perceptions stemming from his
sensory organs.
The famous British philosopher David Hume expressed his thoughts
on this point:
For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always
stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or
shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time
without a perception, and never can observe any thing but the perception. 400

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