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If a computer is connected to the
brain and electric signals are
transmitted from the computer to
the brain to create the sense of
touch, even if there is no actual
act of touching, the person thinks
that he is touching something.
Such a sensation is easily
created with a simulator.

produced, according to modern physics, by the proximity of the electrons
and protons in the table. If the same disturbance in our finger-tips arose
in any other way, we should have the sensations, in spite of there being
no table." That is, when you think you're touching your car, it's an
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impression that comes from the signals sent to the brain by the protons
and electrons in your fingertips.

AHMED: From this we understand that the reality of that which we
call matter is completely unknown to us.

MURAD: True Ahmed, no one can know the reality of matter.
Everything called matter is just an impression to us. Our perceptions send
us sensations which form impressions such as color, light, taste, smell but
beyond these they don't permit us to have direct experience of what we
call matter. And science has reached the same conclusion. Those who
regard matter as the sole absolute existence are left with no rational,