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swer is that both Johnson and the second person have fully experi-
enced kicking the stone, in their minds.
In our previous example, let's make an exchange: Connecting
the nerves of the man hit by the bus to Politzer's brain, and the
nerves of Politzer, sitting in his house, to brain of that man who had
the accident. In this case, Politzer will think that a bus has hit him,
but the man actually hit by the bus will never feel the impact and
think that he is sitting in Politzer's house. The very same logic can be
applied to the example involving the stone.
As is evident, it is not possible for man to transcend his senses
and break free of them. In this respect, a man's soul can be subjected
to all kinds of representations, although it has no physical body and
no material existence and there are no material surroundings. It is
not possible for a person to realize this because he assumes these
perfectly three-dimensional images to be real and is absolutely cer-
tain of their existence, because everybody depends on the percep-
tions stemming from his sensory organs.
The famous British philosopher David Hume expressed his
thoughts on this point:
For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I al-
ways stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold,
light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch my-
self at any time without a perception, and never can observe any thing
but the perception. 10

Formation of Perceptions in the Brain Is Not
Philosophy, But Scientific Fact
Materialists claim that what we have stated here is a philosoph-
ical view. But the plain scientific fact is we cannot interact with the
original of the "external world." This is not a matter of philosophy.