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REPLIES TO OBJECTIONS REGARDING

THE REALITY OF MATTER

lthough the issue of the reality of matter is exceedingly straightforward and easy to understand,

some people attempt to avoid accepting the only possible conclusion, for a number of different
A reasons, and pretend not to comprehend it.
Many people who have understood the problem have expressed their extraordinary excitement at
learning "the secret behind matter," and how it has changed their lives and way of thinking. Many people

try to go deeper into the issue, asking questions to try to understand it better. You can see some of the com-
ments they make in the chapter "Those Who Learn The Secret of Matter Feel Great Excitement."
Others, however, stubbornly deny this extraordinary truth, and put forward various objections of their
own in an effort to reject it. Anyone who does reject it has to scientifically demonstrate that images or

sounds do not form inside the brain. Yet none of the objections that are put forward, from scientists, profes-
sors of neurology, brain experts, psychologists, psychiatrists or professors of biology, in short from any-
body at all, deny that our perceptions are formed within our brains. This is because it is a scientifically
established fact.

Despite this, some people try to cover the matter up by playing word games or adopting an overblown
scientific manner. They try to avoid the evident truth which follows from the statement beginning "Since
images form in our brains…" One of the clearest examples of this is the answers given by scientists who are
asked whether images form in the brain.

One of these scientists replies: "No, images do not form in the brain. The incoming signals form a repre-
sentation of a visual experience."
Let us now examine the method this scientist employs to ignore the truth. Asked whether images form
within the brain, he starts out with a definite "No." He then follows up by saying that the signals form a rep-

resentational image which enables us to see what we are looking at. So he is actually answering the above
question in the affirmative. Of course the image in the brain is a "representational one". Our brains can
never contain a real table, or sun or the sky. The image we have is a representation, in other words a copy.
When we say we can "see the world," we are actually perceiving this "representational world", or "copy", or

"imaginary world". These expressions are all different ways of saying the same thing. One scientist, asked
whether what we see in our brains is a representational world, answers, "Definitely not. What we see in our
brain is a copy of the world." In other words, he first rejects the question asked, but then uses a rather more
confused explanation to confirm that we actually do see in our brains. This is a dishonest method resorted

to by some scientists who fear that if they accept this truth they will in turn be forced to give matter up,
which they believe is the only thing that exists.
Others feel unable to deny that images form in our brains, but because they hesitate to say, "Yes, I see
the whole world in my brain," they give a more meandering answer, "The brain simply processes the in-

coming signals and orders neural activity, that is how you see and hear." Yet in any case, the real subject of

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