ETERNITY HAS ALREADY BEGUN - Islamic Books, Islamic Movies ...

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)
need of some kind of internal eye
to see it—but this would need a
further eye to see its picture… and
so on in an endless regress of eyes
and pictures. This is absurd. 6
This problem puts materialists,
who hold that nothing is real except
matter, in a quandary: Who is behind
the eye that sees? What perceives
what it sees, and then reacts?
Renowned cognitive neuroscientist
Karl Pribram focused on this important
question, relevant to the
worlds of both science and philosophy,
about who the perceiver is:
Philosophers since the Greeks
have speculated about the "ghost"
in the machine, the "little man inside
the little man" and so on.
Where is the I—the entity that uses
the brain? Who does the actual knowing? Or, as Saint Francis of Assisi
once put it, "What we are looking for is what is looking." 7
The following question appears
on the cover of the
American science magazine
New Scientist, which dealt with
the fact that we experience the
material universe only as it appears
in our minds, in its 30
January 1999 issue: "Beyond
Reality: Is the Universe Really
a Frolic of Primal Information
and Matter Just a Mirage?"
This book in your hand, the room you are in—in brief, all the images
before you—are perceived inside your brain. Is it the blind,
deaf, unconscious component atoms that view these images? Why
did some atoms acquire this quality, whereas most did not? Do our
acts of thinking, comprehending, remembering, being delighted,
and everything else consist of chemical reactions among these atoms'
molecules?
There is no sense in looking for will in atoms. Clearly, the being
who sees, hears, and feels is a supra-material being, "alive," who is
neither matter nor an image. This being interacts with the perceptions
before it by using the image of our body.
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