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Harun Yahya

discussion is where the image forms once the brain has carried out all its processing. The answer pro-
vided by this scientist is not an answer at all but a short account of the stage before the formation of an
image. The brain processes the signals, but it does not then send them back to the eye or the ear. For this

reason, it is not the eye that sees, or the ear that hears. That being the case, what does the brain do after
processing the incoming signals? Where is the processed information stored, and where is it turned into
images or sounds? Who is it who perceives this information as images or sounds? When these scientists
are asked for answers to questions like these, they try to avoid accepting the truth by offering long, con-
voluted accounts. Actually, it is a wonder that there is any debate about such an obvious truth at all.

However, all these ways of objecting to or avoiding the issue to hand are feeble and invalid. Until
someone who objects to the reality that is described in these pages comes up with scientific facts to dis-
prove that all our perceptions are formed within our brains, what he says will be of absolutely no worth.

It is a fact that images and all our senses form in our brains. However, even though someone has clearly
grasped this concept, he may still deny that it is God Who forms these images. He may say, 'I don't even
like to think about it,' or 'It is uncomfortable to imagine that I can never see actual matter itself,' or "my
life does not have any meaning any more." That person may find it unnerving that nothing exists but
God. Yet he cannot say that he sees what he does with his own eyes, or that the originals of what he sees

exist somewhere outside him. That is because there is no scientific evidence or observation to show that
that is the case, and neither can there ever be any. In any case, even the most determined materialists ac-
cept that images are seen inside the brain.

This chapter will mainly be devoted to replying to the objections of those who cannot bring them-
selves to accept this fact. Reading these objections and the replies to them, you will see that the replies are
actually quite evident when examined with honesty and without prejudice.

Objection: "When you see a bus coming towards you, you get out of the way to avoid being crushed. That
means the bus exists. Why should you get out of the way if you see it in your brain?"
Reply: The point where those who ask such questions are mistaken is that they think the concept of

"perception" only applies to the sense of sight. In fact, all sensations, such as touch, contact, hardness,
pain, heat, cold and wetness also form in the human brain, in precisely the same way that visual images
are formed. For instance, someone who feels the cold metal of the door as he gets off a bus, actually "feels
the cold metal" in his brain. This is a clear and well-known truth. As we have already seen, the sense of
touch forms in a particular section of the brain, through nerve signals from the fingertips, for instance. It

is not your fingers that do the feeling. People accept this because it has been demonstrated scientifically.
However, when it comes to the bus hitting someone, not just to his feeling the metal of the indoor—in
other words when the sensation of touch is more violent and painful—they think that this fact somehow

no longer applies. However, pain or heavy blows are also perceived in the brain. Someone who is hit by
a bus feels all the violence and pain of the event in his brain.
In order to understand this better, it will be useful to consider our dreams. A person may dream of
being hit by a bus, of opening his eyes in hospital later, being taken for an operation, the doctors talking,
his family's anxious arrival at the hospital, and that he is crippled or suffers terrible pain. In his dream,

he perceives all the images, sounds, feelings of hardness, pain, light, the colors in the hospital, all aspects
of the incident in fact, very clearly and distinctly. They are all as natural and believable as in real life. At
that moment, if the person who is having that dream were told it was only a dream, he would not believe

it. Yet all that he is seeing is an illusion, and the bus, hospital and even the body he sees in his dream have
no physical counterpart in the real world. Although they have no physical counterparts, he still feels as if
a 'real body' has been hit by a 'real bus.'
In the same way, there is no validity to the materialists' objections along the lines of "You realize that
matter actually exists when someone hits you," "You can have no doubt as to the existence of matter

when someone kicks your knee," "You run away when you meet a savage dog," "When a bus has hit you,
you understand whether it is in your brain or not," or "In that case, go and stand on the motorway in

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