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Harun Yahya

these perceptions into electrical signals and transmit them to the brain, which perceives these signals as
flavours. The taste you get when you eat chocolate or a fruit that you like is your brain's interpretation of
electrical signals. You can never reach the object outside; you can never see, smell or taste the chocolate itself.

For instance, if the nerves between your tongue and your brain are cut, no further signals will reach your
brain, and you will lose your sense of taste completely.
Here, we come across another fact: You can never be sure that how a food tastes to you is the same as
how it tastes to anyone else; or that your perception of a voice is the same as what another's when he hears
that same voice. Along the same lines, science writer Lincoln Barnett wrote that "no one can ever know

whether his sensation of red or of Middle C is the same as another man's." 192
Our sense of touch is no different. When we handle an object, all the information that helps us recognise
it is transmitted to the brain by sensitive nerves on the skin. The feeling of touch is formed in our brain.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, we perceive sensations of touch not at our fingertips or on our skin, but
in our brain's tactile centre. As a result of the brain's assessment of electrical stimulations coming to it from
the skin, we feel different sensations pertaining to objects, such as hardness or softness, heat or cold. From
these stimulations, we derive all details that help us recognise an object. Concerning this important fact, con-
sider the thoughts of B. Russell and L. J. J. Wittgenstein, two famous philosophers:

For instance, whether a lemon truly exists or not and how it came to exist cannot be questioned and investigated.
A lemon consists merely of a taste sensed by the tongue, an odor sensed by the nose, a color and shape sensed by
the eye; and only these features of it can be subject to examination and assessment. Science can never know the
physical world. 193
It is impossible for us to reach the physical world outside our brain. All objects we're in contact with are

actually collection of perceptions such as sight, hearing, and touch. Throughout our lives, by processing the
data in the sensory centres, our brain confronts not the "originals" of the matter existing outside us, but
rather copies formed inside our brain. At this point, we are misled to assume that these copies are instances
of real matter outside us.

The "External World" Inside Our Brain

As a result of these physical facts, we come to the following indisputable conclusion: Everything we see,
touch, hear, and perceive as "matter," "the world" or "the universe" is in fact electrical signals interpreted in
our brain. We can never reach the original of the matter outside our brain. We merely taste, hear and see an
image of the external world formed in our brain. In fact, someone eating an apple confronts not the actual
fruit, but its perceptions in the brain. What that person considers to be an apple actually consists of his

brain's perception of the electrical information concerning the fruit's shape, taste, smell, and texture. If the
optic nerve to the brain were suddenly severed, the image of the fruit would instantly disappear. Any dis-
connection in the olfactory nerve travelling from receptors in the nose to the brain would interrupt the sense

of smell completely. Simply put, that apple is nothing but the interpretation of electrical signals by the brain.
Also consider the sense of distance. The empty space between you and this page is only a sense of empti-
ness formed in your brain. Objects that appear distant in your view also exist in the brain. For instance,
someone watching the stars at night assumes that they are millions of light-years away, yet the stars are
within himself, in his vision centre. While you read these lines, actually you are not inside the room you as-

sume you're in; on the contrary, the room is inside you. Perceiving your body makes you think that you're in-
side it. However, your body, too, is a set of images formed inside your brain.
The same applies to all other perceptions. When you believe you're hearing the sound of the television in

the next room, for instance, actually you are experiencing those sounds inside your brain. The noises you
think are coming from meters away and the conversation of the person right beside you—both are perceived
in the auditory centre in your brain, only a few cubic centimetres in size. Apart from this centre of percep-
tion, no concepts such as right, left, front or behind exist. That is, sound does not come to you from the right,
from the left, or from above; there is no direction from which sound "really" comes.

Similarly, none of the smells you perceive reach you from any distance away. You suppose that the scents

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