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fruit would instantly disappear. Any disconnection in the olfactory
nerve traveling from receptors in the nose to the brain would inter-
rupt 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 emptiness 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 center. While you read these lines, actually you are not inside
the room you assume you're in; on the contrary, the room is inside
you. Perceiving your body makes you think that you're inside it.
However, you must remember that you have never seen your orig-
inal body, either; you have always seen a copy of it 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 in-
stance, 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 center in your brain, only a few cubic centimeters in
size. Apart from this center of perception, 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 perceived in your center
of smell are the real ones of outside objects. However, just as the
image of a rose exists in your visual center, so its scent is located in
your olfactory center. You can never have direct contact with the