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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

impressive, his explanation—that there’s screen somewhere inside
the brain where images are displayed—embodies a serious logical
fallacy. For if you were to display an image of a . . . glass on an in-
ternal neural screen, you’d need another little person inside the
brain to see that image. And that won’t solve the problem either be-
cause you’d then need yet another even tinier person inside his head
to view that image, and so on and so forth ad infinitum. You’d end
up with an endless regress of eyes, images and little people without
really solving the problem of perception . . . 50
Here, Ramachandran is touching on an exceedingly important
point. If we assume that there is an image inside the brain, then the
existence of a person watching that image is essential. The pro-
gression of little people inside the brain regarding these images,
and the even smaller people inside their brains looking at those im-
ages will carry on forever. (For details, see The Little Man in the
Tower by Harun Yahya.)
Since no entity is watching the images inside the brain, then to
claim that there is an image in the brain is unrealistic and illogical.
The inside of the brain is completely dark, without light or sound.
In the brain, there are no bright colors, lovely flowers, stoves that
give a feeling of warmth or chirping birds.
So what is it that does form inside the brain? Ramachandran’s
technical explanation runs as follows:
So the first step in understanding perception is to get rid of the idea
of images in the brain and to begin thinking about symbolic de-
scriptions of objects and events in the external world. A good exam-
ple of a symbolic description is a written paragraph like the ones on
this page. If you had to convey to a friend in China what your apart-
ment looks like, you wouldn’t have to teletransport it to China. All
you’d have to do would be to write a letter describing your apart-
ment. Yet the actual squiggles of ink—the words and paragraphs in
the letter—bear no physical resemblance to your bedroom. The

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