Page 123 - Allah's Artistry in Colour

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar 121

However in this dark space, we perceive a colourful world with millions
of different tastes, odours and voices. How then does this happen?
What makes you feel the light in pitch-darkness? What makes you feel
the odour in a place completely insulated from every kind of odour?
Alternatively, what makes you feel other feelings? Who creates all of these
senses for you?
In fact, every moment a miracle happens. As mentioned above, all per-
ceptions of the room we are in, for instance, are transformed into nerve
impulses and transmitted to our brains. The sensations transmitted to the
brain are interpreted as the image of the room. In other words, you are, in
truth, not inside the room you assume you are in; on the contrary, the room
is inside you. The location of the room remains in the brain, or rather let us
say, the location in which it is perceived in the brain is a tiny, dark and quiet
spot. However, the vast landscapes you see on the horizon somehow also fit
into this tiny spot. You perceive both the room you are in and the vast land-
scape in the same place.
Moreover it is again our brain that interprets and attributes meaning to
the signals that we assume to be the "external world". For example, let us
consider the sense of hearing. It is in fact our brain that transforms the sound
waves in the "external world" into a symphony. That is to say, music is also
a perception created by our brain. In the same manner, when we see colours,
what reaches our brains are merely nerve impulses of different characters. It
is again our brain that transforms these signals into colours. There are no
colours in the "external world". Neither is the apple red nor is the sky blue
nor the trees green. They are as they are just because we perceive them to be
so. The "external world" depends entirely on the perceiver.
Even the slightest defect in the retina of the eye causes colour blindness.
Some people perceive blue as green, some red as blue, and some all colours
as different shades of grey. At this point, it does not matter whether the
object outside is coloured or not.
The prominent thinker Berkeley also addressed this fact:

At the beginning, it was believed that colours, odours, etc., "really exist", but
subsequently such views were renounced, and it was seen that they only exist
in dependence on our sensations. 60

In conclusion, the reason we see objects coloured is not because they are