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The fact that you are feeling the
book you are reading now does
not change the fact that the vi-
sion of the book occurs within
your brain. As with the appear-
ance of the book, the sense of
touching the book also takes
place in your brain.

you, but you are seeing it in

your brain. The science
writer Rita Carter says that
we do not actually see the
originals when see a face or a

view, but an interpretation of
the original or a version that
is a complete reconstruction
of it. She adds that no matter

how well these copies are re-
produced, they will still be
different or inferior to the
original. (Rita Carter,
Mapping the Mind,

University of California
Press, London, 1999, p. 135)
The same thing applies to the time when you look at a landscape. There is in fact no difference between

your imagining a landscape from a distance and seeing it close up. Therefore, when you look at a view you
are actually seeing a version constructed in the brain, not the original.
Anyone who considers this will clearly see the truth. One such person, George Berkeley, expresses this
truth in his work A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge:

By sight I have the ideas of light and colours, with their several degrees and variations. By touch I perceive hard

and soft, heat and cold, motion and resistance... Smelling furnishes me with odours; the palate with tastes; and
hearing conveys sounds... And as several of these are observed to accompany each other, they come to be
marked by one name, and so to be reputed as one thing. Thus, for example, a certain colour, taste, smell, figure
and consistence having been observed to go together, are accounted one distinct thing, signified by the name

apple; other collections of ideas constitute a stone, a tree, a book, and the like sensible things... 12
The truth Berkeley expresses in these words is this: We define an object by interpreting different sensa-

tions that are experienced in the brain. As is the case in this example, the taste and smell of an apple, its
hardness and roundness and those sensations related with the other qualities of it are perceived as a whole
by our brain and we perceive this whole as the apple. However, we can never actually deal with the origi-

nal of the apple, only our perception of it. What we can see, smell, taste, touch or hear are only the copies
within the brain.
When we consider all that has been discussed up to this point, the truth will be revealed in all clarity.
For example:
If we can see a street full of colorful lights and all the colors with their own brilliant shadings inside

the brain where there is no actual light, then we are seeing copies of the notice boards, lights, streetlights
and the headlamps of cars which are produced from the electric signals within the brain.
Since no sound can enter the brain, we can never hear the original of the voices of loved ones. We hear

only copies.

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