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Someone looking at a seal sees it in his brain. He also studies the features of that creature
in his brain. What he learns shows him the flawlessness of God's creation, and the
superiority of His wisdom.

responsibility for images will say, "We thought we were not responsible, that is
why we are here," when they are sent to Hell. Even though Hell is an image, in
the same way as this world is, its torments will still be suffered forever.

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R Reply: What people around us call green, we also call green. However, is
the color they call green the same green we see in our minds, or do they refer
to what we see as blue, and call it green? There is no way we can ever know.
As we have already seen, there are no colors outside our mind. There are only
different length light waves outside, and it is our brains which process these
into colors. Thus colors form within us, and no one else can ever see the color
we see in our brains.
This is a subject that has been discussed by many philosophers and
scientists, and the latter have agreed that "We can never say whether someone
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