Page 697 - Atlas of Creation Volume 3

Harun Yahya

IT IS A SCIENTIFIC FACT THAT THE WORLD COMES

INTO EXISTENCE IN OUR BRAINS

e acknowledge that all the individual features of the world are experienced through our

sense organs. The information that reaches us through those organs is converted into electri-
W cal signals, and the individual parts of our brain analyze and process these signals. After this
interpreting process takes place inside our brain, we will, for example, see a book, taste a strawberry,

smell a flower, feel the texture of a silk fabric or hear leaves shaking in the wind.
We have been taught that we are touching the cloth outside of our body, reading a book that is 30 cm
(1 ft) away from us, smelling the trees that are far away from us, or hearing the shaking of the leaves that
are far above us. However, this is all in our imagination. All of these things are happening within our
brains.

At this point we encounter another surprising fact; that there are, in fact, no colors, voices or visions
within our brain. All that can be found in our brains are electrical signals. This is not a philosophical
speculation. This is simply a scientific description of the functions of our perceptions. In her book

Mapping The Mind, Rita Carter explains the way we perceive the world as follows:
Each one [of the sense organs] is intricately adapted to deal with its own type of stimulus: molecules, waves

or vibrations. But the answer does not lie here, because despite their wonderful variety, each organ does es-
sentially the same job: it translates its particular type of stimulus into electrical pulses. A pulse is a pulse is a
pulse. It is not the colour red, or the first notes of Beethoven's Fifth—it is a bit of electrical energy. Indeed,

rather than discriminating one type of sensory input from another, the sense organs actually make them more
alike.

All sensory stimuli, then enter the brain in more or less undifferentiated form as a stream of electrical

pulses created by neurons firing, domino-fashion, along a certain route. This is all that happens. There is no
reverse transformer that at some stage turns this electrical activity back into light waves or molecules.
What makes one stream into vision and another into smell depends, rather, on which neurons are stimu-
lated. 1

In other words, all of our feelings and perceptions about the world (smells, visions, tastes etc.) are

comprised of the same material, that is, electrical signals. Moreover, our brain is what makes these sig-
nals meaningful for us, and interprets these signals as senses of smell, taste, vision, sound or touch. It is
a stunning fact that the brain, which is made of wet meat, can know which electrical signal should be in-
terpreted as smell and which one as vision, and can convert the same material into different senses and
feelings.

Let us now consider our sense organs, and how each one perceives the world.

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