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22 ETERNITY HAS ALREADY BEGUN about the true nature of matter that they may have never thought about it thoroughly. Modern science, however, demolishes this prejudice about the nature of matter and discloses a very important and imposing truth. In the following pages, we will explain this great reality pointed to in the Qur'an. The World of Electrical Signals All the information we have about the world is conveyed to us by our five senses. Thus, the world we know consists of what our eyes see, our hands feel, our nose smells, our tongue tastes, and our ears hear. Many people never think that the external world can be other than what our senses present to us, since we've depended on those senses since the day we were born. Yet modern research in many different fields of science points to a very different understanding, leading to serious doubt about the "outside" world that we perceive with our senses. Stimulations coming from an object are converted into electrical signals and cause effects in the brain. When we "see", we in fact view the effects of these electrical signals on the mind.

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar) For this new understanding, the starting point is that everything we perceive as external is only a response formed by electrical signals in our brain. The information one has about the red of an apple, the hardness of wood—moreover, one's mother, father, family, and everything that one owns, one's house, job, and even the pages of this book—is comprised of electrical signals only. In other words, we can never know the true color of the apple in the outside world, nor the true structure of wood there, nor the real appearance of our parents and the ones we love. They all exist in the outside world as Allah's Creations, but we can only have direct experience of the copies in our brains for so long as we live. To clarify, let's consider the five senses which provide us with all our information about the external world. How Do We See, Hear, and Taste? The act of seeing occurs in a progressive fashion. Light (photons) traveling from the object passes through the lens in front of the eye, where the image is refracted and falls, upside down, onto the retina at the back of the eye. Here, visual stimuli are turned into electrical signals, in turn transmitted by neurons to a tiny spot in the rear of the brain known as the vision center. After a series of processes, these electrical signals in this brain center are perceived as an image. The act of seeing actually takes place at the posterior of the brain, in this tiny spot which is pitch dark, completely insulated from light. Even though this process is largely understood, when we claim, "We see," in fact we are perceiving the effects of impulses reaching our eye, transformed into electrical signals, and induced in our brain. And so, when we say, "We see," actually we are observing electrical signals in our mind. All the images we view in our lives are formed in our center of vision, which takes up only a few cubic centimeters in the brain's volume. The book you are now reading, as well as the boundless 23

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<strong>ETERNITY</strong> <strong>HAS</strong> <strong>ALREADY</strong> <strong>BEGUN</strong><br />

about the true nature of matter that they may have never thought<br />

about it thoroughly. Modern science, however, demolishes this prejudice<br />

about the nature of matter and discloses a very important and<br />

imposing truth. In the following pages, we will explain this great reality<br />

pointed to in the Qur'an.<br />

The World of Electrical Signals<br />

All the information we have about the world is conveyed to us by<br />

our five senses. Thus, the world we know consists of what our eyes<br />

see, our hands feel, our nose smells, our tongue tastes, and our ears<br />

hear. Many people never think that the external world can be other<br />

than what our senses present to us, since we've depended on those<br />

senses since the day we were born.<br />

Yet modern research in many different fields of science points to<br />

a very different understanding, leading to serious doubt about the<br />

"outside" world that we perceive with our senses.<br />

Stimulations coming from an object are<br />

converted into electrical signals and cause<br />

effects in the brain. When we "see", we in<br />

fact view the effects of these electrical<br />

signals on the mind.

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