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Realizing this fact, French philosopher Bergson said in his book, Matter and Memory, that "the world is
made up of images, these images only exist in our consciousness; and the brain is one of these images." 28
Who, then, is the being that shows these sights to our souls, with all their reality and clarity, and lets us
live a life with all of these perceptions and without any interruptions?

The being that shows all the sights to our souls, lets us hear all the sounds, and creates all the tastes and
smells for our pleasure, is the Lord of all the worlds, the creator of everything, God.

One Of The Most Important Dilemmas Of Materialism: Human

Consciousness

Materialist philosophy can never explain the source of human consciousness, i.e. the qualitative experi-
ences that belong to the human soul. For the materialist philosophy, matter is the only thing that exists.
Qualities belonging to the soul of a human being, such as consciousness, thought, decision-making

processes, happiness, excitement, longing, enjoyment and judgment can never be explained in the materi-
alistic concept. Materialists pass quickly over this subject saying "human consciousness is only the result of
the functions of the brain". A materialist scientist, Francis Crick summarizes this materialistic claim as fol-
lows:

Your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will,
are in fact no more than the behaviour of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. 29

However, such a claim cannot be defended by either science or logic. The materialist prejudices lead
materialists to make such explanations regarding the qualities of a soul that belongs to
human beings. In order not to accept the fact that there is a being beyond the mater-
ial world, they attempt to reduce human intelligence to matter and make such

claims that have no relation with intelligence or logic.
The science writer John Horgan, although sympathetic to the materialist
position called "reductionism", points out the following problems with
Francis Crick's claims:

In a sense, Crick is right. We are nothing but a pack of neurons. At the same time,

neuroscience has so far proved to be oddly unsatisfactory. Explaining the mind in
terms of neurons has not yielded much more insight or benefit than explaining the
mind in terms of quarks and electrons. There are many alternative reductionisms. We

It is very clear that mere cells cannot give a
person consciousness, intelligence, the ability
to think and talk, and feelings such as love,
compassion, mercy, longing.

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