Page 29 - Eternity Has Already Begun

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

es, your taste receptors transform these perceptions into electrical
signals and transmit them to the brain, which perceives these signals

as flavors. The taste you get when you eat chocolate or a fruit that
you like is your brain's interpretation of electrical signals. You can
never reach the object outside; you can never see, smell or taste the
chocolate itself. For instance, if the nerves between your tongue and
your brain are cut, no further signals will reach your brain, and you
will lose your sense of taste completely.
Here, we come across another fact: You can never be sure that
how a food tastes to you is the same as how it tastes to anyone else;
or that your perception of a voice is the same as what another's
when he hears that same voice. Along the same lines, science writer
Lincoln Barnett wrote that "no one can ever know whether his sen-
sation of red or of Middle C is the same as another man's." 2
Our sense of touch is no different. When we handle an object, all
the information that helps us recognize it is transmitted to the brain
by sensitive nerves on the skin. The feeling of touch is formed in our
brain. Contrary to conventional wisdom, we perceive sensations of

touch not at our fingertips or on our skin, but in our brain's tactile
center. As a result of the brain's assessment of electrical stimulations
coming to it from the skin, we feel different sensations pertaining to
objects, such as hardness or softness, heat or cold. From these stim-
ulations, we derive all details that help us recognize an object. Con-
cerning this important fact, consider the thoughts of B. Russell and
L. J. J. Wittgenstein, two famous philosophers:
For instance, whether a lemon truly exists or not and how it came to

exist cannot be questioned and investigated. A lemon consists mere-
ly of a taste sensed by the tongue, an odor sensed by the nose, a col-
or and shape sensed by the eye; and only these features of it can be
subject to examination and assessment. Science can never know the
physical world. 3

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