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48 ETERNITY HAS ALREADY BEGUN George Politzer, for example, an ardent Marxist and one of the twentieth century's biggest advocates of the materialist philosophy, gave the "bus example" supposedly as an important evidence on this subject. According to Politzer, even those philosophers who espouse the fact that we merely deal with the copy of matter in our brains run away when they see a bus about to run them over. 8 Samuel Johnson, another famous materialist, was told that one can never have direct experience of the original matter, and tried to deny this reality by giving one of them a kick. 9 There are similar examples in the books of famous materialists such as Marx, Engels, Lenin, and others along with impetuous sentences such as, "You understand the real nature of matter when you are slapped in the face." The point where materialists 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 arrival at the hospital, and that he is crippled or suf-
Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar) fers 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, hos- Some people accept that when they touch a bus, pital and even the body they feel the cold metal in their brains. On the other hand, they do not accept that the feeling of pain he sees in his dream at the moment the bus hits them forms in the have no physical coun- brain. However, a person will feel the same pain if terparts in the real he sees himself falling under a bus in his dream. 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 the real nature of matter when someone hits you," "You can have no doubt as to whether or not you see the original 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 front of the oncoming traffic". A sharp blow, the pain from a dog's teeth or a violent slap are not ev- 49
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48<br />
<strong>ETERNITY</strong> <strong>HAS</strong> <strong>ALREADY</strong> <strong>BEGUN</strong><br />
George Politzer, for example, an ardent Marxist and one of the<br />
twentieth century's biggest advocates of the materialist philosophy,<br />
gave the "bus example" supposedly as an important evidence on this<br />
subject. According to Politzer, even those philosophers who espouse<br />
the fact that we merely deal with the copy of matter in our brains<br />
run away when they see a bus about to run them over. 8<br />
Samuel Johnson, another famous materialist, was told that one<br />
can never have direct experience of the original matter, and tried to<br />
deny this reality by giving one of them a kick. 9<br />
There are similar examples in the books of famous materialists<br />
such as Marx, Engels, Lenin, and others along with impetuous sentences<br />
such as, "You understand the real nature of matter when you<br />
are slapped in the face."<br />
The point where materialists are mistaken is that they think the<br />
concept of "perception" only applies to the sense of sight. In fact, all<br />
sensations, such as touch, contact, hardness, pain, heat, cold and wetness<br />
also form in the human brain, in precisely the same way that visual<br />
images are formed. For instance, someone who feels the cold<br />
metal of the door as he gets off a bus, actually "feels the cold metal"<br />
in his brain. This is a clear and well-known truth. As we have already<br />
seen, the sense of touch forms in a particular section of the brain,<br />
through nerve signals from the fingertips, for instance. It is not your<br />
fingers that do the feeling. People accept this because it has been<br />
demonstrated scientifically. However, when it comes to the bus hitting<br />
someone, not just to his feeling the metal of the indoor—in other<br />
words when the sensation of touch is more violent and painful—<br />
they think that this fact somehow no longer applies. However, pain<br />
or heavy blows are also perceived in the brain. Someone who is hit<br />
by a bus feels all the violence and pain of the event in his brain.<br />
In order to understand this better, it will be useful to consider our<br />
dreams. A person may dream of being hit by a bus, of opening his<br />
eyes in hospital later, being taken for an operation, the doctors talking,<br />
his family's arrival at the hospital, and that he is crippled or suf-