Page 79 - Darwin's Dilemma: The Soul

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

images, tastes and sounds we receive about the world actually
consist of the same material: electrical signals. The regions in the
brain affected by these signals turn them into delicious food, a
beautiful landscape, or lively music. But the conscious entity that
feels or perceives them is something else. The brain and electrical
signals themselves cannot enjoy the taste of food or the color and
smell of a flower. Materialist scientists fail to realize that it is the
soul—as distinct from the brain—that perceives and evaluates.
Jeffrey M. Schwartz describes how perceptions arise indepen-
dently of the brain:

Every conscious state has a certain feel to it, and possibly a unique
one: when you bite into a hamburger, it feels different from the ex-
perience of chewing a steak. And any taste sensation feels different
from the sound of a Chopin étude, or the sight of a lightning storm .
. . Identifying the locus where red is generated, in the visual cortex,
is a far cry from explaining our sense of redness, or why seeing red
feels different from tasting fettuccine Alfredo or hearing “Für
Elise”—especially since all these experiences reflect neuronal firings

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