Page 761 - Atlas of Creation Volume 2

Harun Yahya

transformed into electric signals by cells in the epithelium of the nose. Special sensors lodged beneath

the skin transform impulses of touch (such as the sensations of hardness or softness) into electric signals,
and a special mechanism in the ear does the same with sound. All these signals are sent to appropriate
centers in the brain, where they are perceived.
To clarify the point, assume that you're drinking a glass of lemonade. The hard, cool surface of the

glass you're holding is transformed into electric signals by special receptors under your skin and sent to
the brain. Simultaneously, the smell of the lemonade, its taste, and yellowish color all become signals
that reach the brain. Likewise, the clink you hear when the glass touches the table is perceived by the
ear and transmitted to the brain as an electric signal. All these perceptions are interpreted in the brain's

relevant centers, which work harmoniously with one another. As a
cumulative result of these impulses, you sense that you are drinking
a glass of lemonade.
Concerning this important fact, consider the thoughts of B.

Russell and L. J. J. Wittgenstein, two famous philosophers:

For instance, whether a lemon truly exists or not and how it came to
exist cannot be questioned and investigated. A lemon consists mere-
ly of a taste sensed by the tongue, an odor sensed by the nose, a
color and shape sensed by the eye; and only these features of it can

be subject to examination and assessment. Science can never know
the physical world. 342

In other words, it is impossible for us to reach the physical
world. All objects we're in contact with are actually collec-
tion of perceptions such as sight, hearing, and touch.

Throughout our lives, by processing the data in the sen-
sory centers, our brain confronts not the "originals" of
the matter existing outside us, but rather copies inside
our brain. At this point, we are misled to assume that these

copies are instances of real matter outside us.

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