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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

                    pictures in the brain which are perceptions of objects. The pictures-
                    in-the-brain notion suggests an internal eye to see them. But this
                    would need a further eye to see its picture—another picture, anoth-
                    er eye—and so on forever, without getting anywhere.  53
                    Professor Antonio Damasio, head of the Iowa University
               Neurology Department, says, “Quite candidly, this first problem of
               consciousness is the problem of how we get a ‘movie-in-the-
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               brain,’”  thus openly admitting the predicament in which scien-
               tists find themselves on this subject. It is clear that 21st-century sci-
               ence leaves unanswered the question “Who is it who is seeing?”
               Scientists have abandoned the hypothesis that there is an observer
               in the brain. But for scientists, this has made the concept of the im-





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