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             All objects we're in contact with are actually collection of perceptions
             such as sight, hearing, and touch. Throughout our lives, while process-

             ing the data in the sensory centers, we confront not the "originals" of
             the matter existing outside us, but rather copies inside our brain. At this
             point, we are misled to assume that these copies are instances of real
             matter outside us.
                  This obvious fact has been proven by science today. Any scientist would
                  tell you how this system works, and that the world we live in is really an
                  aggregate of perceptions formed in our brains. The English physicist John
                  Gribbin states that our senses are an interpretation of stimulations com-
                  ing from the external world-as if there were a tree in the garden. He goes

                  on to say that our brain perceives the stimulations that are filtered
                  through our senses, and that the tree is only a stimulation. So, he then
                  asks, which tree is real? The one formed by our senses, or the tree in the
                  garden? 267
                  No doubt, this reality requires profound reflection. As a result of
             these physical facts, we come to the following indisputable conclusion:
             Everything we see, touch, hear, and call "matter," "the world" or "the
             universe" is nothing more than electrical signals interpreted in our
             brain. We can never reach the original of the matter outside our brain.
             We merely taste, hear and see an image of the external world formed in
             our brain.
                  In fact, someone eating an apple confronts not the actual fruit, but

             its perceptions in the brain. What that person considers to be an apple
             actually consists of his brain's perception of the electrical information
             concerning the fruit's shape, taste, smell, and texture. If the optic nerve
             to the brain were suddenly severed, the image of the fruit would in-
             stantly disappear. Any disconnection in the olfactory nerve traveling
             from receptors in the nose to the brain would interrupt the sense of
             smell completely. Simply put, that apple is nothing but the interpreta-
             tion of electrical signals by the brain.
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