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dred years ago. For the first time, this subject is being explained in a
truly irrefutable way.
Still, nevertheless, a great number of materialist scientists take
a superficial stand against the fact that no one can ever have direct
experience of the original of matter. The subject covered in this
chapter is one of the most important and most exciting that a person
can ever run across. It's fairly unlikely that these scientists would
have faced such a crucial subject before, but the reactions and the
stance they employ in their speeches and articles still hint at how su-
perficial their comprehension really is.
Some materialists' reactions show that their blind adherence to
materialism has somehow impaired their logic, making them far re-
moved from comprehending the subject. For instance, Alaettin
Senel- like Rennan Pekunlu, an academician and a writer for Bilim ve
Utopya- said, "Forget the collapse of Darwinism, the real threatening
subject is this one," and made demands implying " prove what you
tell," sensing that his own philosophy has no basis. More interest-
ingly, this writer has written lines revealing that he can by no means
grasp this very fact which he considers such a menace.
For instance, in one article where Senel discussed this subject
exclusively, he accepts that the brain perceives the external world as
an image. But he writes, "I do not know whether or not the images in
my brain have correlates in the external world, but the same thing
applies when I speak on the phone. When I speak on the telephone,
I cannot see the person I am speaking to, but I can have this conver-
sation confirmed later, when I see him face to face." 12
By this, he actually means that if we doubt our perceptions, we
can look at their origin and check its reality. This is an evident mis-
conception, however, since it's impossible for us to reach matter itself.
We can never get outside of our minds to know what is "outside."