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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

inside is absolutely dark. The brain has no contact with light it-
self, which exists outside.
We can explain this interesting situation with an example.
Let us suppose that there is a burning candle in front of us. We
can sit across from this candle and watch it at length. However,
during this period of time, our brain never has any direct contact
with the candle's original light. Even as we see the light of the
candle, the inside of our brain is pitch dark. We watch a colourful
and bright world inside our dark brain.
R. L. Gregory gives the following explanation of the miracu-
lous aspect of seeing, an action that we take so very much for
granted:
We are so familiar with seeing, that it takes a leap of imagination to
realise that there are problems to be solved. But consider it. We are
given tiny distorted upside-down images in the eyes, and we see
separate solid objects in surrounding space. From the patterns of
simulation on the retinas we perceive the world of objects, and this
is nothing short of a miracle. 1
The same situation applies to all our other senses. Sound,
touch, taste and smell are all transmitted to the brain as electrical
signals and are perceived in the relevant centres in the brain.
The sense of hearing functions in the same manner. The
outer ear picks up available sounds by the auricle and directs
them to the middle ear; the middle ear transmits the sound vi-
brations to the inner ear by intensifying them; the inner ear sends
these vibrations to the brain by translating them into electrical
signals. Just as with the eye, the act of hearing finalises in the cen-
tre of hearing in the brain. The brain is insulated from sound just

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