Page 29 - Knowing The Truth

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar) 27

MURAD: Is the tree you see standing over there now or is it in the
brain's sight center?

IBRAHIM: It's in the brain's sight center, of course.

AHMED: Just a minute. Okay, the impression of the tree may be in
my brain but the tree is standing over there! I can go and pick a fruit from
it or lean against it and sit in the shade.

MURAD: Let's not rush it and look at the subjects in order. Think for
a moment about everything that makes a tree a tree – its colors, branches,
leaves – all are perceived in the sight center of our brain. When we touch
a tree or pick a fruit from it we experience an impression of sight, sound,
taste, smell and touch, sent to the brain from all our five senses. We never
have a connection with anything outside our perceptions. Without the
sense of sight we can't see; if we don't have the sense of hearing, we can't
hear. In fact, the things we perceive in our brains by means of the senses
make up much of our whole life.

AHMED: Okay I accept that. But look. I'm reaching out and taking a
bite of cake and eating it with pleasure. Once I've eaten the cake it gives
me energy. Would it be right to say that I have no connection with the
reality of this? Can we taste something without having anything to do
with its reality?

MURAD: In fact, the question was answered earlier in the example
of the tree. The cake, the tree and the table are in the cognitive center of
your brain. But don't worry! We'll find examples later that'll make this
clearer! But to sum it up now; Throughout our lives we taste the savor of
the cake that we eat and use the energy that our body inside our brain
takes from this cake. Likewise, off a tree that is in our brain we rip a fruit
that is also in our brain. And we feel the chill under the shadow of a tree
that is in our brain. Everything we know about the world is composed of