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surroundings correctly. In this way, you realize that you are standing
still and the other train is in motion.
Of course the process of the brain putting these data together actu-
ally takes place thanks to the flawless communication transmission of
more than a billion axons. Our bodies’ equilibrium is the product of a
conscious creation, as revealed in the Qur’an:

The kingdom of the heavens and Earth belongs to God. God has
power over all things. (Surah Al ‘Imran, 189)

Similar Signals Carry Very Different Messages
The common feature in our sense organs all turn the electrical stim-
uli reaching them into electrical signals and forward them to the relevant
sense centers in the brain. At this point, we find a most surprising fact:
All of the messages the brain received from the sense organs consist of
the same kind of signal. All the stimuli transmitted to various centers in
the brain are in the form of electrical currents, yet these identical cur-
rents contain very different information and cause different effects in the
different centers of the brain—which is most astonishing.
In her book The Human Brain, Susan Greenfield draws attention to
this extraordinary situation:

Another tantalizing and related mystery of the brain is why electrical sig-
nals arriving the visual cortex should be experienced as vision, while ex-
actly the same kind of electrical signals, arriving in another part of the
brain such as the somatosensory cortex or the auditory cortex, should be
perceived as touch and hearing respectively. 86
The truth that Greenfield describes as a “mystery” is quite obvious:
The functions of our sense organs were brought into being with a flaw-
less creation, just like all the other systems of our bodies. Our Lord has
arranged matters in the same way that He produces plants and fruits
with very different tastes, colors and smells from the same black soil, He
has also ensured that identical signals are perceived in totally different
ways in our brains, making us able to perceive the colors, scents and
tastes in the outside world.