Page 713 - Atlas of Creation Volume 3

Harun Yahya

The purpose of the nose is
to receive smell signals and
transmit them to the brain.
The smell of soup, or a rose,
is sensed in the brain.
However, a person can
sense the smell of the rose
or soup in his dream, even
in the absence of any soup
or roses. God forms such a
convincing collection of
senses within the brain with
the taste, smell, vision,
sense of touch and sound
that it takes a lot of expla-
nation to demonstrate to
people that all of these feel-
ings occur in the brain and
that they are actually not
dealing with the originals of
anything they see. This is
the magnificent knowledge
of God.

Michael Posner, a psychologist and Marcus Raichle, a

neurologist from Washington University comment on the
issue of how sight and other senses occur, even in the ab-
sence of an external stimulus:

Open your eyes, and a scene fills your view effortlessly;
close your eyes and think of that scene, and you can sum-

mon an image of it, certainly not as vivid, solid, or com-
plete as a scene you see with your eyes, but still one that
captures the scene's essential characteristics. In both cases,
an image of the scene is formed in the mind. The image

formed from actual visual experiences is called a "percept"
to distinguish it from an imagined image. The percept is
formed as the result of light hitting the retina and sending
signals that are further processed in the brain. But how

are we able to create an image when no light is hitting
the retina to send such signals? 10

There is no need for an external source to form an
image in your mind. This same situation holds true for
the sense of smell. In the same way as you are aware of a

smell which does not really exist in your dreams or imag-
ination, you cannot be sure whether or not those objects, A person can picture the face of his wife or imagine the
which you smell in real life, exist outside you. Even if you smell of a daisy in his brain with little concentration. The
question then is that who is seeing without the need of an
assume that these objects exist outside of you, you can
eye or smelling without the need of a nose things that
never deal with the original objects. physically do not exist nearby? This being is the soul of
the person.

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