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Light rays from the table reach our eyes, where they are turned into electrical stimuli
transmitted by nerves to our brain's visual center. There is no actual screen in our brain,
of course: Electrical stimuli coming from the table do not form an actual image in the vi-
sual center. We say that we see the table with the colorful fruit on it, but we actually see
the electrical signals reaching the pitch darkness inside our brain.

What sees this perfect image is also what separates human beings
from animals and all other animate and inanimate things is the Spirit
that God “breathed into” them when He created them. In the Qur’an
(15: 28-30), God reveals the existence of the “spirit” in these words:
When your Lord said to the angels, “I am creating a human being out
of dried clay formed from fetid black mud. When I have formed him
and breathed My Spirit into him, fall down in prostration in front of
him!” Then the angels prostrated all together, every one of them.

Copies Indistinguishable from the Originals

Miraculously, the perceptions of the spirit are completely the
same as reality. Despite the fact that the spirit has nothing to do with
material originals, but only with electrical signals reaching the brain,
it sees shapes and colors and feels hardness and texture, just as they
are in reality. So clear are these impressions that he’s convinced that
he’s seeing and touching the original.
For example, a swimmer in the sea’s cool, blue waters is actually
immersed in a great miracle. He thinks he is swimming in the water,
but has never emerged from the darkness inside his brain. From the
moment he entered the water, every stimulus entering his body is