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The Little Man in the Tower






                 Arnold B. Scheibel, MD


                 Departments of Anatomy and Psychiatry

                 UCLA








                 ... [T]he image in our brain and our physical surround is something different.
               Reality... exists only in our brain. We have no way to experience reality except
               with our brain. A flower is red, because it absorbs a wavelength complementary to
               red. There is no way of seeing the real wavelength of red, which is 671 nm. The
               flower appears red because we were told that it is red. And we connect this
               impression with warmth (fire) or excitement (signal red)... So all the perceptions
               our brain can make are a mixture of physical and chemical signals which impress
               us as real, but in reality they are not real.



                 Prof. Dr. Norbert Hilschmann



                 (Emeritus)


                 Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for Experimental Medicine







                 The image does not depend on light, of course. A blow to the head makes you
               see stars that are a complete illusion …






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