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your hands, you might think that the book is outside you. However, this
feeling of hardness also originates in the brain. The nerves on your fingertips
transmit electrical information to the touch center in your brain. And when you
touch the book, you feel the hardness and intensity of it, the slipperiness of the
pages, the texture of the cover and the sharpness of the edge of the pages, all

within your brain.
In reality however, you can never touch the real nature of the book. Even
though you think that you're touching the book, it is your brain that perceives
the tactile sensations. This book exists as a material thing outside of your brain,
but you merely confront the image of the book within your brain. However,
you should not be tricked by the fact that a writer wrote this book, the pages
were designed by a computer and printed by a publisher. The things that will

be explained in due course will show you that you will never know the
originals of the people, computers and the publishers in every stages of the
production of this book.
We can therefore conclude that everything we see, touch and hear merely
exists in our brains. This is a scientific truth, proven with scientific evidence.
The significant point is the answer to the question asked above, which this
scientific truth has led us to ask; who is it that has no eye, but watches sights
through a window in our brains and enjoys or becomes anxious from these
sights? This will be explained in the following pages.

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