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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

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 problem puts materialists,
who hold that nothing is real except
matter, in a quandary: Who is be-
hind the eye that sees? What per-
ceives what it sees, and then reacts?
Renowned cognitive neuroscien-
tist Karl Pribram focused on this im-
The following question ap-
portant question, relevant to the pears on the cover of the
worlds of both science and philoso- American science magazine
New Scientist, which dealt with
phy, about who the perceiver is:
the fact that we experience the
Philosophers since the Greeks material universe only as it ap-
pears in our minds, in its 30
have speculated about the "ghost" January 1999 issue: "Beyond
in the machine, the "little man in- Reality: Is the Universe Really
a Frolic of Primal Information
side the little man" and so on.
and Matter Just a Mirage?"
Where is the I—the entity that uses
the brain? Who does the actual knowing? Or, as Saint Francis of As-
sisi once put it, "What we are looking for is what is looking." 7
This book in your hand, the room you are in—in brief, all the im-
ages before you—are perceived inside your brain. Is it the blind,
deaf, unconscious component atoms that view these images? Why
did some atoms acquire this quality, whereas most did not? Do our
acts of thinking, comprehending, remembering, being delighted,
and everything else consist of chemical reactions among these atom-
s' molecules?
There is no sense in looking for will in atoms. Clearly, the being
who sees, hears, and feels is a supra-material being, "alive," who is
neither matter nor an image. This being interacts with the percep-
tions before it by using the image of our body.

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