Page 31 - Eternity Has Already Begun

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

It is impossible for us to reach the original of the physical world
outside our brain. All objects we're in contact with are actually col-
lection of perceptions such as sight, hearing, and touch. Throughout
our lives, by processing the data in the sensory centers, our brain
confronts not the "originals" of the matter existing outside us, but
rather copies formed inside our brain. We can never know what the
original forms of these copies are like.

The "External World" Inside Our Brain

As a result of these physical facts, we come to the following in-
disputable conclusion: We can never have direct experience of any
of the things we see, touch, hear, and name "matter," "the world" or
"the universe." We only know their copies in our brain and can nev-
er reach the original of the matter outside our brain. We merely
taste, hear and see an image of the external world formed in our
brain. In fact, someone eating an apple confronts not the actual fruit,
but its perceptions in the brain. What that person considers to be an
apple actually consists of his brain's perception of the electrical in-
formation concerning the fruit's shape, taste, smell, and texture. If
the optic nerve to the brain were suddenly severed, the image of the
fruit would instantly disappear. Any disconnection in the olfactory
nerve traveling from receptors in the nose to the brain would inter-
rupt the sense of smell completely. Simply put, that apple is nothing
but the interpretation of electrical signals by the brain.
Also consider the sense of distance. The empty space between
you and this page is only a sense of emptiness formed in your brain.
Objects that appear distant in your view also exist in the brain. For
instance, someone watching the stars at night assumes that they are
millions of light-years away, yet the stars are within himself, in his
vision center. While you read these lines, actually you are not inside
the room you assume you're in; on the contrary, the room is inside
you. Perceiving your body makes you think that you're inside it.
However, you must remember that you have never seen your orig-

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