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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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