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Darwin’s Dilemma: The Soul
What would happen if these electrical signals vanished?
Would the world outside promptly disappear?
The outside world exists in a concentrated wave form.
However, the world we perceive is not the actual world outside.
Therefore, if the electrical signals reaching the brain are eliminated,
the world outside will effectively cease to exist for us. That is be-
cause we learn everything about the world outside by way of our
senses. The information we learn about the outside world only
comes in the form that our sensory organs transmit. This informa-
tion reaching us is converted into electrical signals that are inter-
preted in the relevant sites in the brain. For that reason, the water
we drink, any film we watch or any flower we smell are all the re-
sults of interpretations by the brain.
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