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52 KNOWING THE TRUTH
In the picture on the left, there is a distance between the person standing and the
airplanes over his head. But the glass held by the man on the right appears much
closer in comparison to the plane. Actually, both the planes in the distance and
the glass in the man's hand are on one surface. There is no distance between the
people and these objects. Each image is in the brain's center of cognition.
dimensional space and depth is real. But every impression is formed on a
single surface as on a frame of film. The sight center of our brain has an
area of one cubic centimeter; that is, as small as a chickpea. All those
things we see in the distance such as far-away houses, stars in the sky, the
moon, the sun, airplanes and birds in the air, occur in this small area. In
other words, there is technically no distance between an airplane which
you may say is thousands of kilometers up in the air and a glass you can
reach out and take with your hand. It's all on a single surface in the brain's
center of perception.
AHMED: I understand too. There's no longer any doubt that space
and depth are particular to the brain just like sight, sound and taste. But
what does this change? That is what I can't understand. I mean, what
difference does it make if everything is an impression in my brain?
