Page 101 - The Struggle Against the Religion of Irreligion

Just as we experience our dreams as real and only realize that

they are dreams when we wake up, we cannot be certain that what we

are experiencing right now is real. This suggests that we may well be

awakened from this life on earth, which we feel we are living right

now, and begin to experience a genuine life. We have no evidence

whatsoever proving otherwise. On the contrary, science provides

serious findings suggesting that what we experience may actually have

no material existence.

The fact that surfaces at this point is obvious: while we assume

that the world we live in exists, or when we think that we live in that

world, there are in fact no substantial reasons for us to claim that such

a world has a material reality. It may well be nothing but perceptions

with no material reality which are artificially stimulated.

Is Our Brain Distinct from the Outside World?

As discussed so far, if everything we know is but internally

produced perceptions, what about the brain which we think sees and

hears? Is it not made up of atoms and molecules as everything else?

Just like everything we call matter, the brain is also a

perception. It is a piece of meat that we perceive through our senses.

Like everything else whose existence we assume in the external world,

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