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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.