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For example, take the example of the human mind, which is not something that can be seen or touched.
Moreover, there is no "mind center" in the brain. Inevitably, this leads us to conceive of the mind as some-
thing beyond matter. That is, what we call "I"—the thinking, loving personality able to feel pleasure and
pain, that gets upset or happy is not a material object like a table or a stone.

However, materialists claim that mind can be reduced to matter. They claim that our ability to think,
love, feel regret and all other mental activities are actually products of chemical reactions among the atoms
in our brain. When we love someone, it is the influence of neurochemicals in certain cells in our brain; if we
fear anything, that is due to another chemical reaction. Of this logic, the materialist philosopher Karl Vogt
said, "the brain secretes thought just as the liver secretes bile." 48 Bile is a material substance, but there is no

proof that a thought is material.
Reductionism is a strictly logical operation. But any logical operation may rest on false foundations.
One of the important methods in determining if this is so is by appealing to science. For this reason, we

must pose the following question: Can reductionism—the basis of materialist logic—be substantiated in the
light of scientific data?
In the 20th century, all scientific investigations, all observations, and the results of all experiments have
given a resounding "No" to this question.

Dr. Werner Gitt, director at the German Federal Institute of Physics and Technology, says this:

Accoding system always entails a nonmaterial intellectual process. A physical matter cannot produce an infor-
mation code. All experiences show that every piece of creative information represents some mental effort and
can be traced to a personal idea-giver who exercised his own free will, and who is endowed with an intelligent
mind. . . There is no known law of nature, no known process and no known sequence of events which can cause

information to originate by itself in matter. . . 49

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