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sounds perfectly, distinguishes between hundreds of different tastes,
thinks, feels and judges. The brain simply collects the electric signals
coming from the eye, ear, nose, tongue and skin. But inside the brain there
is another being that interprets these signals and sees an impression.
Aisha, you can't say that brain cells create these impressions, can you?

AISHA: Certainly not, Murad. A cell doesn't have an eye or an ear to
see or hear with.

MURAD: Yes, that's the surprising thing. This being sees without
needing eyes and hears without needing ears; and perceives what is seen
and heard. Scientists have also offered numerous theories about this
matter. A writer, R.L. Gregory has explained it this way. "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
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absurd." As you see, this writer understood and explained the problem
clearly. But because of his materialist point of view, he wasn't able to give
an answer to the question of "to whom this internal eye belongs", and has

rejected the truth completely. In the world of science and philosophy,
Karl Pribram draws attention to the important search for the identity of
the being who senses the perception. "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 Francis of Assisi once put it, 'What we
are looking for is what is looking.'" 9
Now I'll ask you again: If that consciousness that hears what I'm
saying, asks for details of the pictures and diagrams it sees, seeks an
answer to questions, isn't brain's cells or a cognitive center, what is it
then?
IBRAHIM: Are you saying there's someone in our brain we don't
know about who hears and interprets what we say?