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M MIRACLE IN THE EYE
image of the external world formed in our brain.
In fact, someone eating an apple confronts not the actual fruit, but its
perceptions in the brain. What that person considers to be an apple actually
consists of his brain's perception of the electrical information concerning the
fruit's shape, taste, smell, and texture. If the optic nerve to the brain were
suddenly severed, the image of the fruit would instantly disappear. Any dis-
connection in the olfactory nerve traveling from receptors in the nose to the
brain would interrupt the sense of smell completely. Simply put, that apple
is nothing but the interpretation of electrical signals by the brain.
We see all the colors around us inside the darkness of
our brains, just as this garden's colors appear from the
window of a darkened room.
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