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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

at the instant the bus hit that person, Politzer, sitting at his home at
that same time, would feel the impact too. Politzer would experi-
ence all the sensations experienced by the person undergoing the ac-
cident, just as the same song will issue from two different loud-
speakers connected to the same tape recorder. Politzer will hear the
braking of the bus, feel its impact on his body, see the sights of a bro-
ken arm and spreading blood, suffer the aching fractures, experi-
ence entering the operation room, the hardness of the plaster cast,
and the feebleness of his healing arm.
Just like Politzer, every other person connected to that man's
nerves would experience the accident from beginning to end. If the
man in the accident fell into a coma, so would everyone. Moreover,
if all the perceptions pertaining to the car accident were recorded in
some device, and repeatedly transmitted to someone, the bus would
knock this person down again and again.
But which one of these two buses hitting those people is real? To
this question, materialist philosophers have no consistent answer.
The correct answer is that all of them experience the car accident, in
all its details, in their own minds.
The same principle applies to our other examples. If the nerves of
materialist Johnson, who felt pain in his foot after delivering a sound
kick to a stone, were connected to a second individual, that person
too would feel himself kick the same stone and feel the same pain.
So, which stone is the real one? Again, materialist philosophy
falls short of giving a consistent answer. The correct, consistent an-
swer is that both Johnson and the second person have fully experi-
enced kicking the stone, in their minds.
In our previous example, let's make an exchange: Connecting the
nerves of the man hit by the bus to Politzer's brain, and the nerves
of Politzer, sitting in his house, to brain of that man who had the ac-
cident. In this case, Politzer will think that a bus has hit him, but the
man actually hit by the bus will never feel the impact and think that
he is sitting in Politzer's house. The very same logic can be applied
to the example involving the stone.

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