Page 25 - Eternity Has Already Begun

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

For this new understanding, the starting point is that everything
we perceive as external is only a response formed by electrical sig-
nals in our brain. The information one has about the red of an apple,

the hardness of wood—moreover, one's mother, father, family, and
everything that one owns, one's house, job, and even the pages of
this book—is comprised of electrical signals only. In other words,
we can never know the true color of the apple in the outside world,
nor the true structure of wood there, nor the real appearance of our
parents and the ones we love. They all exist in the outside world as
Allah's Creations, but we can only have direct experience of the
copies in our brains for so long as we live.
To clarify, let's consider the five senses which provide us with all
our information about the external world.

How Do We See, Hear, and Taste?
The act of seeing occurs in a progressive fashion. Light (photons)
traveling from the object passes through the lens in front of the eye,
where the image is refracted and falls, upside down, onto the retina
at the back of the eye. Here, visual stimuli are turned into electrical
signals, in turn transmitted by neurons to a tiny spot in the rear of
the brain known as the vision center. After a series of processes,
these electrical signals in this brain center are perceived as an image.
The act of seeing actually takes place at the posterior of the brain, in
this tiny spot which is pitch dark, completely insulated from light.

Even though this process is largely understood, when we claim,
"We see," in fact we are perceiving the effects of impulses reaching
our eye, transformed into electrical signals, and induced in our
brain. And so, when we say, "We see," actually we are observing
electrical signals in our mind.
All the images we view in our lives are formed in our center of
vision, which takes up only a few cubic centimeters in the brain's
volume. The book you are now reading, as well as the boundless

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