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Darwin’s Dilemma: The Soul

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We quickly realize when people approach from a distance.
Their appearance, voice and size vary depending on the terrain.
On the basis of these factors, we make an analysis and determine
the distance between them and us. Yet in fact, there is no distance
at all between these others and ourselves. The idea that we are see-
ing them from some distance is due to a computation we carry out
in our brains. Our sensation of distance is just a perception.
There is in fact no distance between our-
selves and someone we imagine to be ap-
proaching from far off. The feeling of dis-
tance we perceive is merely an interpretation
by the brain. We are in fact in the same spot
as a tunnel we imagine extends as far as the
horizon. Everything is merely shown to us at
one point inside the brain.
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