Page 115 - Darwin's Dilemma: The Soul

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

“The faculty of consciousness is one thing we all share, but what goes in our con-
sciousness, the forms that consciousness takes on, varies widely. This is our personal
reality, the reality we each know and experience. Invariably we mistake this person-
al reality for physical reality, believing ourselves to be in direct contact with the
world ‘out there.’ But the colors and sounds we experience are not really ‘out there’;
they are all images in the mind, pictures of reality we have constructed. This one fact
leads to a radical rethinking of the relationship between consciousness and reality.”
—Peter Russell,
From Science to God: A Physicist’s Journey into the Mystery of Consciousness,
New World Library, 2002, p. 39

tained within this visual field. Each object has its own particular
perspective and a distance to the point from where it’s observed.
That is how people perceive things; their sense of depth, perspec-
tive, shade within the whole visual field convinces them that they
are seeing the actual external world. In fact, however, everything
they see, including their own bodies, is the effects of electrical sig-
nals inside their brains. There is no distance between the book in
front of them and the Sun that they imagine to be 93 million miles
away. And there is no distance between them and any other ob-
ject either. Everything they observe is part of an image arising in
the brain.

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