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Conclusion: The Perceptual World Created

in Our Minds
The subject matter of this chapter, the way the signals collected by

our sense organs are perceived in the brain, shows us another important
fact: we can never have direct contact with the outside world itself.
There is matter outside us, whether we see it or not. But we can never
make direct contact with it. The world we have direct experience of con-
sists of interpretations of electrical signals in our brains. (For detailed in-
formation, see Harun Yahya, The Other Name of the Illusion: Matter;
Harun Yahya, Idealism: The Philosophy of the Matrix, and The True
Nature of Matter.)
As mentioned earlier, what you perceive as the outside world is
merely an effect in your brain created by electrical signals. The blue of
the sky you see from your window, the softness of the chair you sit in,
the aroma of the coffee you drink, the tastes of the food you eat, the
sound of the telephone ringing, your nearest and dearest, and even your
own body are all interpretations of electrical signals in the brain.
Professor of Nuclear Physics Gerald L. Schroeder, refers to this in these
terms:

Wiggle your toes. Feel them? But where do you feel them? But where do
you feel them? Not in your toes. Toes feel nothing. You feel them in your
brain. Anyone who has had the misfortune of having. . . . The brain has
within it maps if the body that record every sensation and then project that
sensation onto the mental image of the relevant body part. But it certainly
feels like I’m feeling my toes in my toes. And it is not just the toes. The en-
tire reality, what we see and what we feel, what we smell and what we
hear, is mapped in the brain and then those recorded out to out conscious-
ness from within the two-to-four millimeter (about one-eight inch) thin
wrinkled gray layer, the cerebral cortex, that rests at the top of each of our
brains. There is a reality out there in the world, but what we experience—
every touch and every sound, every sight, smell and taste—arises in our
heads. All our mental images, fantasy or factual, are built on our life’s ex-
perience. 87