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Who Sees?

René Descartes, the renowned philosopher, offered the following reasoning on this surprising
truth about dreams:

In my dreams I see that I do various things, I go to many places; when I wake up, however, I see that
I have not done anything or gone anywhere and that I lie peacefully in my bed. Who can guarantee
to me that I do not also dream at the present time, further, that my whole life is not a dream? 24
We are therefore looking at a manifest truth: There is no justification for our claiming that we es-
tablish direct contact with the original of the world that we claim to exist and to be living in.

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If everything we know as the outside world is only perceptions produced internally, what about
the brain which we think does the seeing and hearing? Isn't it composed of atoms and molecules like
everything else? The brain, too, is a piece of tissue that we perceive through our senses. This being so,
what is it, if not the brain, that perceives everything-that sees, hears, touches, smells and tastes?
At this point, we face the obvious fact: that man, a being of consciousness who can see, feel, think
and exercise reason, is much more than a mere assemblage of atoms and molecules. What defines a
human being is the "soul" granted to him by God. Otherwise, it would be highly un-
reasonable to attribute his consciousness and other faculties to a three-pound
piece of flesh:
He Who has created all things in the best possible way. He com-
menced the creation of man from clay; then produced his seed
from an extract of base fluid; then formed him and
breathed His Spirit into him and gave you hearing, sight
and hearts. What little thanks you show! (Qur'an, 32: 7-9)

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