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lthough the issue of the reality of matter is exceedingly
straightforward and easy to understand, some people attempt
to avoid accepting the only possible conclusion, for a number of
A different reasons, and pretend not to comprehend it.
Many people who have understood the problem have expressed their
extraordinary excitement at learning "the secret behind matter," and how it has
changed their lives and way of thinking. Many people try to go deeper into the

issue, asking questions to try to understand it better. You can see some of the
comments they make in the chapter "Those Who Learn The Secret of Matter
Feel Great Excitement."
Others, however, stubbornly deny this extraordinary truth, and put
forward various objections of their own in an effort to reject it. Anyone who
does reject it has to scientifically demonstrate that images or sounds do not
form inside the brain. Yet none of the objections that are put forward, from
scientists, professors of neurology, brain experts, psychologists, psychiatrists
or professors of biology, in short from anybody at all, deny that our perceptions

are formed within our brains. This is because it is a scientifically established
fact.
Despite this, some people try to cover the matter up by playing word
games or adopting an overblown scientific manner. They try to avoid the
evident truth which follows from the statement beginning "Since images form
in our brains…" One of the clearest examples of this is the answers given by

scientists who are asked whether images form in the brain.
One of these scientists replies: "No, images do not form in the brain. The
incoming signals form a representation of a visual experience."
Let us now examine the method this scientist employs to ignore the truth.
Asked whether images form within the brain, he starts out with a definite
"No." He then follows up by saying that the signals form a representational
image which enables us to see what we are looking at. So he is actually
answering the above question in the affirmative. Of course the image in the
brain is a "representational one". Our brains can never contain a real table, or

sun or the sky. The image we have is a representation, in other words a copy.
When we say we can "see the world," we are actually perceiving this
"representational world", or "copy", or "imaginary world". These expressions
are all different ways of saying the same thing. One scientist, asked whether

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