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            taining to objects, such as hardness or softness, heat or cold. From
            these stimulations, we derive all details that help us recognize an
            object. Concerning this important fact, consider 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.  3
                 It is impossible for us to reach the original of the physical world
            outside our brain. All objects we're in contact with are actually col-
            lection of perceptions such as sight, hearing, and touch. Throughout
            our lives, by processing the data in the sensory centers, our brain
            confronts not the "originals" of the matter existing outside us, but
            rather copies formed inside our brain. We can never know what the
            original forms of these copies are like.


                 The "External World" Inside Our Brain
                 As a result of these physical facts, we come to the following in-
            disputable conclusion: We can never have direct experience of any
            of the things we see, touch, hear, and name "matter," "the world" or
            "the universe." We only know their copies in our brain and 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 in-
            formation concerning the fruit's shape, taste, smell, and texture. If
            the optic nerve to the brain were suddenly severed, the image of the
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