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HARUN YAHYA
signals by special receptors under your skin and sent to the brain.
Simultaneously, the smell of the lemonade, its taste, and yellowish color all
become signals that reach the brain. Likewise, the clink you hear when the
glass touches the table is perceived by the ear and transmitted to the brain as
an electric signal. All these perceptions are interpreted in the brain's relevant
centers, which work harmoniously with one another. As a cumulative result
of these impulses, you sense that you are drinking a glass of lemonade.
Concerning this important fact, consider the thoughts of B. Russell and
L. J. J. Wittgenstein, two famous philosophers:
For instance, whether a lemon truly exists or not and how it came to exist
cannot be questioned and investigated. A lemon consists merely of a taste
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 examina-
tion and assessment. Science can never know the physical world. 50

In other words, it is impossible for us to reach the physical world. 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 exist-
ing outside us, but rather copies inside our brain. At this point, we are mis-
led to assume that these copies are instances of real matter outside us.
This obvious fact has been proven by science today. Any scientist would
tell you how this system works, and that the world we live in is really an ag-
gregate of perceptions formed in our brains. The English physicist John
Gribbin states that our senses are an interpretation of stimulations coming
from the external world—as if there were a tree in the garden. He goes on to
say that our brain perceives the stimulations that are filtered through our
senses, and that the tree is only a stimulation. So, he then asks, which tree is
real? The one formed by our senses, or the tree in the garden? 51
No doubt, this reality requires profound reflection. As a result of these
physical facts, we come to the following indisputable conclusion: Everything
we see, touch, hear, and call "matter," "the world" or "the universe" is nothing
more than electrical signals interpreted in our brain. We can never reach the
original of the matter outside our brain. We merely taste, hear and see an

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