Page 105 - Ever Thought About The Truth ?

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

Similarly, there are four different types of chemical recep-
tors in the front part of a human being's tongue. These register
salty, sweet, sour, and bitter tastes. Our taste receptors transform
these perceptions into electrical signals after a chain of chemical
processes and transmit them to the brain. These signals are per-
ceived as taste by the brain. The taste you get when you eat a
chocolate bar or a fruit that you like is the interpretation of elec-
trical signals by the brain. You can never reach the object on the
outside; you can never see, smell or taste the chocolate itself. For
instance, if taste nerves that travel to your brain are cut, nothing
you eat at that moment will impinge upon your brain; you will
completely lose your sense of taste.
And here is another interesting fact: We can never be sure
that what we feel when we taste a food and what another person
feels when he tastes the same food, or what we perceive when we
hear a voice and what another person perceives when he hears
the same voice are the same. On this point, Lincoln Barnett says
that no one can know that another person perceives the colour
red or hears the C note the same way as he himself does. 2
Our sense of touch is no different than the others. When we
touch an object, all information that will help us recognise the ex-
ternal world and objects are transmitted to the brain by the sense
nerves on the skin. The feeling of touch is formed in our brain.
Contrary to general belief, the place where we perceive the sense
of touch is not at our finger tips or skin but at the relevant centre
in our brain. As a result of the brain's assessment of electrical
stimulations coming from objects to it, we sense different proper-
ties these objects such as hardness or softness, or heat or cold. We

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