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themselves never reach there. Just as with sound and vision, what
reaches your sensory centers is simply an assortment of electrical
signals. In other words, all the sensations that, since you were born,
you've assumed to belong to external objects are just electrical sig-
nals interpreted through your sense organs. You can never have di-
rect experience of the true nature of a scent in the outside world.
Similarly, at the front of your tongue, there are four different
types of chemical receptors that enables you to perceive the tastes of
salty, sweet, sour, and bitter. After a series of chemical processes,
your taste receptors transform these perceptions into electrical sig-
nals and transmit them to the brain, which perceives these signals as
flavors. 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 choco-
late 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 sen-
sation of red or of Middle C is the same as another man's." 2
Our sense of touch is no different. When we handle an object,
all the information that helps us recognize 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 sensa-
tions of touch not at our fingertips or on our skin, but in our brain's
tactile center. As a result of the brain's assessment of electrical stim-
ulations coming to it from the skin, we feel different sensations per-