brain, how the sound of pleasant music is interpreted differently from
chewing a steak and why even the most detailed MRI provides noevidence
regarding the interpretation mechanism involved, Jeffrey M. Schwartz,
a neuroscientist and research professor of psychiatry at the UCLA
School of Medicine, goeson to ask the following important question:
...why would studying brain mechanisms, even down to the molecular
level, ever provide an answer to those questions?
The answer is this: Because the answer to the interpreting mechanism
is not in the brain at all. It is impossible to come by the answers to
questionsregarding this mechanism by studying human cells, examining
neurons or performing research at the molecular level. That is because
what causes a person to perceive the outside world is not inside the
human body. It is something outside the brain, neurons, cells or
electric signals. It is the soul bestowed on us by Almighty Allah.
Reveals Allah in one verse:
… then [He] formed him and breathed His Spirit into him and gave you
hearing, sight and hearts. What little thanksyou show! (Surat
as-Sajda, 9)
People who fail to understand that it is the soul that perceives, and
that it is independent of matter, are making a very important mistake:
They face the possibility that the images they see exist on a screen
in their brains. Yet when we consider that there is a screen in our
brains on which the outside world exists, we also have no choice but
to admit the existence of a little man watching that screen. And there
must be another little man watching the screen in the brain of the
first, and so on. But there is no screen and no other little man
watching the events on it in the brain. The human brain is pitchblack
and silent. There is nothing there but neurons made up of proteins and
electric signals moving very swiftly back and forth. It is impossible
for those electric signals to see a flower, smell it, touch it,
delight in it, see a ship sailing in the distance orenjoy the taste of
a strawberry--all in a pieceof flesh. It is impossible for them to
experience aprolonged period of enjoyment of an orchestral symphony.
It is obviously not electrical signals that produce such a lively,
bustling, brightly colored, vivid, three-dimensional and perfectly
sharp world. And there is also no doubt that it is not electric
signals that cause one to rejoice or grieve, to feel excitement or
concern, to remember and feel happy, or to miss someone and satisfy
thatlonging. Even if the world's most renowned professors were to work
together, as Jeffrey M. Schwartz says, they still would not find this
perception mechanism anywhere in the brain.
The self-conscious entity that says "I see" the images and "I hear"
the sounds in the brain is the soul given to man byAllah. This is the
reality that the materialist mindset is most unwilling of all to see
revealed. The soul sees without the need for eyes, touches without the
need for hands, hears without the need for ears, smells without the
need for a nose and tastes without the need for a mouth. The soul is
the only answer to the question of "who does the perceiving?" which
scientists have been trying to resolve for years. Allah constantly
shows images to the human soul and, day and night, whether in this
world or in dreams, creates a whole world for them. Everything in that
world has a perfect and flawless appearance. So much so that it is
very difficult forus to realize that the sharp image and sensation of
depth in front of us consists merely of an illusion andhas no
connection with the real outside world. This is the flawless,
matchless, glorious workof our Almighty Lord, Who has the power to
create infinite worlds in an area just a few centimeters in size
whenever He chooses.
He is Allah – the Creator, the Maker, the Giver of Form. To Him belong
the Most Beautiful Names. Everything in the heavens and Earth
glorifies Him. He is the Almighty, the All-Wise. (Surat al-Hashr, 24)
A flawless image forms in our brains because Allah so wills. There are
smells there because He so wills and we listen to and enjoy immaculate
music because He so wishes. We also feel and recognize things by
touching them because Allah so wills. The food we eat has flavor
because that is what Allah wills. A whole world emerges in the human
mind from nothing at Allah's command. Our Lord creates a world from
nothing in a person's mind that belongs to that person alone, that
only he can see and recognize. This world is not the outside world. It
is impossible to have direct contact with the world outside. It is
impossible, unless Allah so wills, for anyone to have direct
experience of a world created for someone else. One can only live in
and watch a world created for oneself alone by Allah. It is impossible
to step outside it. In another verse, Allah reveals:
They will ask you about the Spirit. Say: "The Spirit is one of the
commands of my Lord. You have only been given a little knowledge."
(Surat al-Isra', 85)
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