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The brain is a heap of cells made up of protein and fat molecules. It is formed of nerve
cells called neurons. There is no power in this piece of meat to observe the images, to
constitute consciousness, or to create the being we call "myself". The existence of
the soul can clearly be seen from this.

means that within the piece of meat we call our "brain", there is nothing to
observe the images, to constitute consciousness, or to form the being we call
"myself".
R.L. Gregory refers to a mistake people make in relation to the percep-
tion of images in the brain:

There is a temptation, which must be avoided, to say that the eyes produce
pictures in the brain. A picture in the brain suggests the need of some kind of
internal eye to see it - but this would need a further eye to see its picture…
and so on in an endless regress of eyes and pictures. This is absurd. 206
This is the very point which puts the materialists, who do not hold
anything but matter as real, in a quandary. To whom belongs "the eye
inside" that sees, that interprets what it sees and reacts to it?
Karl Pribram also focused on this important question in the world of
science and philosophy about who the perceiver is:
Philosophers since the Greeks have speculated about the "ghost" in the
machine, the "little man inside the little man" and so on. Where is the I -- the
entity that uses the brain? Who does the actual knowing? Or, as Saint Fran-
cis of Assisi once put it, "What we are looking for is what is looking". 207

Now, think of this: The book in your hand, the room you are in, in
brief, all the images in front of you are seen inside your brain. Is it the
atoms that see these images? Blind, deaf, unconscious atoms? Why did
some atoms acquire this quality whereas some did not? Do our acts of
thinking, comprehending, remembering, being delighted, being unhappy,