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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

that either one is mistaken. We can never know who is right and
who is wrong, because both individuals have individual percep-
tions, and we have no means of conducting comparisons and test-
ing the true reality. Green perception and grey perception are both
individuals’ personal experiences, the validity of which is again
based on those individuals’ interpretation.
We need to realize that all the properties we ascribe to objects
and other people actually belong to images in our brains, not to the
“originals” in the outside world. Since we can never step outside of
our own perceptions and reach the outside reality, we can never
perceive the true existence of matter, of colors, much less of the uni-
verse as a whole.
The famous 18th-century philosopher Bishop George
Berkeley drew attention to this fact:

If the same things can be red and hot for some and the contrary for
others, this means that we are under the influence of misconceptions
and that "things" only exist in our brains. 41
Oxford University’s Gerard O’Brien, working at the
University of Adelaide in Australia, said this in a radio talk:
Now when we look out into the world, we see objects as coloured.
We think those colours are actually attached to all the objects that we
see. But now there is a very interesting question as to whether that is
the case. . . . It might turn out—and there are a number of philoso-
phers who argue—that the colours that we experience, those colour
properties are in fact only features of our internal representation of
the world, that there are no corresponding colours in the world itself.
And so the world outside our heads, the world independent of our
experience is actually colourless. . . . Is the

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