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M MIRACLE IN THE EYE

and chaos. 21 This is because the body's perfect design allows every task,
from the basic to the complicated, to be carried out flawlessly. Thanks to
God's infinite power, we are able to live our lives—except in times of ill-
ness—with no physical difficulties.

Knowing What You See
The human mind stores some of the images it sees. These stores are reg-
ularly reopened, to be used again. When a child sees a pencil for the first
time, for example, a file opens in his memory for that pencil. Later, when he
comes across another pencil, the file opens again and the image within is
compared with the image of the present pencil. In this way, the child deter-
mines a pencil is what he's looking at.
This pattern is by no means unique to infants and children. All human
minds—yours included—follow it automatically, all the time. When you
come across an image, it's immediately compared with any similar images
from your archives, and thus the image is recognized or not. This process
may sound needlessly simple, but if it didn't take place, you couldn't recog-
nize your own child.
Associative memory also enables movement recognition. If you hap-
pen to be looking at an object in motion, your memory compares its move-
ment with any action that may follow. As on a roll of film, the motions are
recorded, one after the other, in a sequence of images; and the present loca-
tion of the object is compared with its previous location. All of these factors
contribute to how we perceive movement.
To recap the main details covered up until now, the mind records cer-
tain images and stores them for regular re-use. But where and how are these
images recorded? Why and by whom are they recovered?
A computer records all data on a hard or floppy disk, but the amount of
data it can store is limited to those disks' capacity. A brain contains no such
disk, yet this piece of flesh can easily store millions of images.
Every computer disk on the market today has been designed and man-
ufactured by humans, and in great numbers. But if anyone came forward to

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