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Who Sees?

that you are sitting in this room, that room is actually inside you, in your brain. The "place" where the
room is assembled and perceived is small, dark, and soundless. And yet a whole room or a whole
landscape, regardless of its size, can fit into it. Both a narrow closet and a wide vista of the sea are per-
ceived in the exact same place.
Our brains interpret and attribute meaning to the signals relating to the "external world." As an
example, consider the sense of hearing. It's our brain that in fact interprets and transforms the sound

waves into a symphony. That is to say, music is yet another perception created by our brain. In the
same manner, when we perceive colors, what reaches our eyes is merely light of different wave-
lengths. Again, it's our brain that transforms these signals into colors. There are no colors in the "ex-
ternal world"; neither is an apple red, nor the sky blue, nor the leaves green. They appear as they do
simply because we perceive them to be so.
Even a slight defect in the eye's retina can cause color blindness. Some sufferers perceive blue and
green as the same, some red as blue. At this point, it does not matter whether or not the outside ob-
ject is colored.
The prominent thinker George Berkeley also addresses this fact:
At the beginning, it was believed that colors, odors, etc., "really exist," but subsequently such views
were renounced, and it was seen that they only exist in dependence on our sensations. 23
In conclusion, the reason we see objects in colors is not because they are actually colored or have

a material existence in the outer world. The truth, rather, is that the qualities we ascribe to objects are
all inside us.
And this, perhaps, is a truth you have never considered before.

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