Page 109 - Ever Thought About The Truth ?

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

blue. In these cases, it does not matter whether the object outside
is coloured or not.

The World of Senses Can Occur Without
Outside World's Existence

One factor which reveals that everything we see and experi-
ence exists in our brain and that we can never know the original
of the matter that exists outside is that we do not need an outside
world for senses to occur in the brain. Many technological devel-
opments such as simulators and also dreams are the most impor-
tant evidences of this truth.
Science writer, Rita Carter, states in her book, Mapping The
Mind, that "there's no need for eyes to see" and describes at
length an experiment carried out by scientists. In the experiment,
blind patients were fitted with a device that transformed video
pictures into vibrating pulses. A camera mounted next to the
subjects' eyes spread the pulses over their backs so they had con-
tinuous sensory input from the visual world. The patients started
to behave as if they could really see, after a while. For example,
there was a zoom lens in one of the devices so as to move closer
the image. When the zoom is operated without informing the pa-
tient beforehand, the patient had an urge to protect himself with
two arms because the image on the subject's back expanded sud-
denly as though the world was looming in. 4
As it is seen from this experiment, we can form sensations
even when they are not caused by material equivalents in the
outside world. All stimuli can be created artificially.

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