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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

Who Is The Perceiver?
As we have explained so far, we can never have experience
of the original of the material world we think we are inhabiting
and that we call the "external world." However, here arises the
question of primary importance. If we cannot reach the original
of any of the material existence that we know of, what about our
brain? Since our brain is a part of the physical world just like our
arm, leg, or any other object, we cannot reach its original either.
When the brain is analysed, it is seen that there is nothing in
it but lipid and protein molecules, which also exist in other living
organisms. This means that within the piece of meat we call our
"brain", there is nothing to observe the images, to constitute con-
sciousness, or to form the being we call "myself".
R.L. Gregory refers to a mistake people make in relation to
the perception of images in the brain:
There is a temptation, which must be avoided, to say that the eyes
produce pictures in the brain. A picture in the brain suggests the
need of some kind of internal eye to see it – but this would need a
further eye to see its picture… and so on in an endless regress of
eyes and pictures. This is absurd. 6
This is the very point which puts the materialists, who do
not hold anything but matter as real, in a quandary. To whom be-
longs "the eye inside" that sees, that interprets what it sees and
reacts to it?
Karl Pribram also focused on this important question in the
world of science and philosophy about who the perceiver is:
Since the Greeks, philosophers have been thinking about "the ghost
in the machine," "the small man within the small man," etc. Where

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