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20 KNOWING THE TRUTH

This important conversation begins on a weekend in a summerhouse
outside the city.

MURAD: I really feel I know all of you after reading your letters. It's
like we're old friends, meeting after a long absence and just picking up
where we left off. You asked just the right questions. In fact, I hope as we
talk and share ideas, you'll find the answers are more simple and precise
than you can imagine. To explain a few technical matters I brought
pictures and diagrams. Now, who's going to ask the first question?

IBRAHIM: I'd like to start first since I don't know much about the
subject. I've read books that say our lives are only composed of images
and we can never be in contact with those images that exist in the external
world. Is that true?

MURAD: That's right.

IBRAHIM: Well I'd like to know what this image is then.

MURAD: Ibrahim, isn't your specialty biology?

IBRAHIM: Yes.

MURAD: To understand this subject, it's necessary to know how our
five senses work. We all remember high school biology but since you,
Ibrahim, are advanced in that science, starting with the sense of sight, can
you tell us how the five senses work?

IBRAHIM: Technically speaking, the sense organs are part of a very
intricate system that'll take hours to explain. Each organ has its own
wondrous system. Volumes have been written about the way the ears
make hearing possible, alone. But it's possible to at least outline this
complex system in a few words.