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idence that you are dealing with the matter itself. As we have seen,
you can experience the same things in dreams, with no correspond-
ing physical counterparts. Furthermore, the violence of a sensation
does not alter the fact that the sensation in question occurs in the
brain. This is a clearly proven scientific fact.
The reason why some people think that a fast-moving bus on the
motorway or an accident caused by that bus are striking proofs of
their dealing with the physical existence of matter is that the image
concerned is seen and felt as so real that it deceives one. The images
around them, for instance the perfect perspective and depth of the
motorway, the perfection of the colors, shapes and shadows they
contain, the vividness of sound, smell and hardness, and the com-
pleteness of the logic within that image can deceive some people.
On account of this vividness, some people forget that these are ac-
tually perceptions. Yet no matter how complete and flawless the
perceptions in the mind may be, that does not alter the fact that they
are still perceptions. If someone is hit by a car while walking along
the road, or is trapped under a house that collapses during an earth-
quake, or is surrounded by flames during a fire, or trips up and falls
down the stairs, he still experiences all these things in his mind, and
is not actually confronting the reality of what happens.
When someone falls under a bus, the bus in his mind hits the
body in his mind. The fact that he dies as a result, or that his body is
completely shattered, does not alter this reality. If something a per-
son experiences in his mind ends in death, Allah replaces the images
He shows that person with images belonging to the Hereafter.
Those who are unable to understand the truth of this now on hon-
est reflection will certainly do so when they die.

The Example of a Shared Nervous System

Let us consider Politzer's car crash example: If the injured per-
son's nerves traveling from his five senses to his brain, were con-
nected in parallel to another person's—Politzer's, for instance—then

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