WEBVTT 00:01.000 --> 00:07.000 The Illusion of Matter and Reality 00:22.000 --> 00:29.000 Human beings devote almost their entire lives to the pursuit of material gain. 00:29.000 --> 00:37.000 In the hope of living a more comfortable and prosperous life, they often rush through daily routines without thinking. 00:37.000 --> 00:43.000 But does this matter we constantly chase truly exist? 00:43.000 --> 00:57.000 Do the beautiful houses, luxury cars, the latest smartphones that we work so hard to obtain throughout our lives actually exist? 00:57.000 --> 01:06.000 Or are they, like the images we see in our dreams, nothing more than representations formed in our minds? 01:06.000 --> 01:14.000 And could it be that, without realizing it, we are actually living in a simulation? 01:14.000 --> 01:24.000 What is Matter? 01:24.000 --> 01:29.000 What is Matter? 01:29.000 --> 01:41.000 The true nature of matter, the fact that matter is not actually made of matter, is now a scientifically proven fact. 01:41.000 --> 01:51.000 Quantum physics has overturned all materialist assumptions by demonstrating that matter can transform into energy, 01:51.000 --> 01:57.000 and by showing that an object can exist in more than one place at the same time. 01:57.000 --> 02:10.000 The renowned physicist Fred Alan Wolfe describes this truth about matter not being what materialists claim it to be in the following words. 02:10.000 --> 02:15.000 What makes up things are not more things. 02:15.000 --> 02:31.000 What makes up things are ideas, concepts, information. 02:31.000 --> 02:40.000 When we step into the world of quantum, we realize how fragile the reality we take for granted truly is. 02:40.000 --> 02:45.000 Light behaves both like matter and like a wave. 02:45.000 --> 02:52.000 This particle, known as the photon, travels through space as an energy wave. 02:52.000 --> 03:01.000 Yet when it encounters an obstacle, it behaves as if it were a physical object, revealing itself as tiny particles. 03:01.000 --> 03:07.000 This astonishing discovery marked the birth of modern physics. 03:07.000 --> 03:13.000 Beginning with Max Planck, it was developed by some of the greatest minds in scientific history. 03:13.000 --> 03:29.000 Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Louis de Broglie, Erwin Schrödinger, Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac, and Wolfgang Pauli. 03:29.000 --> 03:34.000 Each of them was awarded the Nobel Prize for these revolutionary discoveries. 03:34.000 --> 03:40.000 It was Louis de Broglie's discovery that truly changed everything. 03:40.000 --> 03:47.000 He demonstrated that in the subatomic world, not only particles exist, waves do as well. 03:47.000 --> 03:58.000 He also proved that electrons, protons, and everything we perceive as matter are, at their core, energy waves. 03:58.000 --> 04:03.000 At this point, the materialist perspective was shaken. 04:03.000 --> 04:11.000 Because the foundation of the understanding that matter is an absolute reality had collapsed. 04:11.000 --> 04:21.000 The interior of the atom was not solid, as once imagined, but a sea of vibrations, something that bore no resemblance to matter. 04:21.000 --> 04:28.000 Particles sometimes became visible, sometimes transformed into waves and virtually disappeared. 04:28.000 --> 04:37.000 In short, the concept of absolute matter had transformed into an abstract flow of energy. 04:37.000 --> 04:43.000 This was a profound revolution. 04:43.000 --> 04:51.000 quantum physics revealed that what we called the real world is, in fact, a reflection, a plane of perception. 04:51.000 --> 04:54.000 Matter was not as solid as we thought. 04:54.000 --> 04:58.000 Reality itself was shaped by observation. 04:58.000 --> 05:08.000 One of the directors of the Max Planck Institute, Professor Hans-Peter Derr, summarized this truth with a striking statement. 05:12.000 --> 05:17.000 Matter, whatever it may be, is not made of matter. 05:17.000 --> 05:35.000 Dreams and Feelings 05:35.000 --> 05:42.000 To better understand the reality of matter, let's pause for a moment and look at dreams. 05:42.000 --> 05:45.000 There is a world in our dreams as well. 05:45.000 --> 05:53.000 There, we walk, talk, touch walls, and feel the wind. 05:53.000 --> 05:58.000 Everything is real. 05:58.000 --> 06:01.000 But until we wake up. 06:01.000 --> 06:13.000 But in fact, all those images, sounds, and feelings are created entirely within our minds, even though they do not exist in any way outside. 06:13.000 --> 06:16.000 The dream body. 06:16.000 --> 06:18.000 Dream house. 06:18.000 --> 06:21.000 Dream cities that we believe to be real. 06:21.000 --> 06:27.000 Are all just electrical signals processed in our brain. 06:27.000 --> 06:32.000 Interestingly, the same process occurs in daily life. 06:32.000 --> 06:40.000 Light, sound, and touch signals from the outside world are also processed in our brain. 06:40.000 --> 06:45.000 We cannot know if there is a real counterpart in the outside world. 06:45.000 --> 06:52.000 Technically, there is no difference between dreams and real life. 06:52.000 --> 06:55.000 Both are formed in the brain. 06:55.000 --> 07:00.000 In short, humans only interact with their perceptions. 07:00.000 --> 07:07.000 Whatever they see, hear, or feel is a perception formed within themselves. 07:07.000 --> 07:12.000 In reality, they cannot go beyond these perceptions. 07:12.000 --> 07:18.000 Because all the scenes they see are images specifically presented to the soul. 07:18.000 --> 07:22.000 There is no proof of the existence of matter. 07:22.000 --> 07:28.000 Everything we perceive with our five senses is merely a perception formed in our brain. 07:28.000 --> 07:34.000 Therefore, it is never possible for us to directly access the world outside our brain. 07:34.000 --> 07:49.000 When we dream, we cannot understand that what we experience is not real. 07:49.000 --> 07:55.000 Just as we find it difficult to accept that what we see now, while living in this world, 07:55.000 --> 08:02.000 is merely an illusion formed in our mind. 08:02.000 --> 08:08.000 However, the way we perceive the images we call real life is exactly the same as in dreams. 08:08.000 --> 08:13.000 In both cases, the image is formed in our brain. 08:13.000 --> 08:17.000 The same signals activate the same centers in the brain. 08:17.000 --> 08:31.000 In respect of formation and reality, there is no difference between the image in a dream and the image we call real. 08:31.000 --> 08:36.000 We doubt the reality of the image in neither case while watching them. 08:36.000 --> 08:40.000 What about what we see right now? 08:40.000 --> 08:46.000 A person who dreams of walking through a field of sunflowers 08:46.000 --> 08:52.000 realizes she is in fact lying in own bed. 08:52.000 --> 08:55.000 When we wake up from a dream, we can say, 08:55.000 --> 08:58.000 It was all just a dream. 08:58.000 --> 09:04.000 So, how can we prove that what we see now is not a dream? 09:04.000 --> 09:10.000 Actually, we cannot prove it. 09:10.000 --> 09:15.000 Whether it's a dream or it's the real life, a person perceives the same images. 09:15.000 --> 09:27.000 So, all beings are merely images. 09:27.000 --> 09:30.000 A reality shown to us like a movie scene. 09:30.000 --> 09:34.000 But we are not who makes this movie. 09:34.000 --> 09:39.000 Then, who creates this flawless movie of reality? 09:39.000 --> 09:44.000 Who creates this universe? 09:44.000 --> 09:46.000 Vivid in every detail. 09:46.000 --> 09:47.000 Colorful. 09:47.000 --> 09:48.000 Audible. 09:48.000 --> 09:52.000 And tangible. 09:52.000 --> 09:54.000 That is the real question. 09:54.000 --> 09:59.000 Who is the creator of this perfect reality we watch in our minds? 09:59.000 --> 10:02.000 The answer is clear and unequivocal. 10:02.000 --> 10:09.000 It is our almighty Lord, God, who creates everything from nothing at any moment. 10:09.000 --> 10:13.000 Who creates everything just with a command of Be. 10:13.000 --> 10:25.000 God, the creator of all things, the possessor of infinite power and might, informs us of this truth in the Quran as follows. 10:25.000 --> 10:34.000 I seek refuge in God, from the accursed Satan, the originator of the heavens and earth. 10:34.000 --> 10:40.000 When he decides on something, he just says to it, Be, and it is. 10:40.000 --> 10:41.000 When he לא dies. 10:41.000 --> 10:42.000 еромs. 10:42.000 --> 10:47.000 What happens in the near-sudbin and earth has an invented using她's miracle? 10:47.000 --> 10:48.000 And it is known as hell. 10:48.000 --> 10:50.000 All beings. 10:50.000 --> 10:51.000 Think about how they have anger. 10:51.000 --> 10:52.000 Okay. 10:52.000 --> 10:53.000 Have a look around yourself. 10:53.000 --> 11:03.420 Have a look around yourself. 11:04.140 --> 11:07.080 What a colorful, vibrant world there is. 11:08.000 --> 11:09.560 The sky is blue. 11:10.460 --> 11:11.640 The sea turquoise. 11:12.460 --> 11:13.980 The flowers multicolored. 11:15.140 --> 11:17.820 A scene painted with thousands of shades of light. 11:18.960 --> 11:21.460 It is impossible to go unamazed. 11:23.000 --> 11:27.860 All these are endless reasons and beauties granted to us to thank God. 11:29.860 --> 11:34.780 What if I told you that there is actually no light outside of our minds? 11:36.520 --> 11:37.000 Lamps. 11:40.360 --> 11:41.540 Car headlights. 11:45.020 --> 11:46.240 Neon signs. 11:48.180 --> 11:49.820 Even the sun in the sky. 11:49.820 --> 11:58.220 It might be difficult to believe that these things do not actually emit light in the sense we know. 12:00.680 --> 12:04.620 We perceive the outside world through the presence of light. 12:04.620 --> 12:09.880 However, reality is much different than we imagine. 12:11.880 --> 12:15.480 In fact, there is no light in the outside world. 12:16.480 --> 12:20.860 What we call light is merely a perception created within our brains. 12:20.860 --> 12:36.400 It is the interpretation of the signals that come to our eyes what appears us as a bright world. 12:36.400 --> 12:39.760 The technical explanation is quite simple. 12:42.260 --> 12:46.700 The sun and other light sources emit electromagnetic particles. 12:46.700 --> 12:50.900 Or photons of various wavelengths. 12:52.560 --> 12:54.600 These photons spread throughout the universe. 12:55.500 --> 13:00.920 However, these particles themselves are not light, but merely packets of energy. 13:00.920 --> 13:06.120 Just like radio waves, infrared and ultraviolet rays are. 13:07.020 --> 13:11.420 Some of these particles are so heavy and they carry so much energy 13:11.420 --> 13:18.700 that they often shatter the molecule they collide with and continue on their path without much deviation. 13:18.700 --> 13:23.140 This is the underlying reason why radiation causes cancer. 13:24.440 --> 13:27.020 Weaker types are used in X-ray machines. 13:28.840 --> 13:33.660 What an X-ray machine does is to convert invisible waves into visible light. 13:34.380 --> 13:39.140 In other words, the image is actually an artificial perception created by the device. 13:40.280 --> 13:43.120 This example shows that light only exists 13:43.120 --> 13:48.780 when it is perceived by the eye and interpreted by the brain. 13:49.900 --> 13:54.800 Just as technological devices capture invisible subatomic particles 13:54.800 --> 13:57.560 and convert them into images on a screen, 13:58.560 --> 14:04.740 the human brain perceives electrical signals triggered by photons as images through chemical reactions. 14:05.640 --> 14:08.800 Outside, there is no light in the sense we define it. 14:09.540 --> 14:10.620 Everything is transparent. 14:10.620 --> 14:14.360 What we call light is entirely perception. 14:18.640 --> 14:22.340 Humans did not create this perception system of their own volition. 14:24.360 --> 14:29.180 Our sensory organs were specially created for us to be grateful. 14:30.920 --> 14:35.560 Our Lord draws attention to this truth in the Holy Quran as follows. 14:35.560 --> 14:41.560 I seek refuge in God from the accursed Satan. 14:44.420 --> 14:44.980 Say, 14:45.520 --> 14:50.240 It is he who brought you into being and gave you hearing, sight and hearts. 14:51.240 --> 14:52.720 What little thanks you show. 14:52.720 --> 15:03.740 Now, let's talk about color. 15:06.740 --> 15:08.920 Have you ever thought about colors? 15:08.920 --> 15:16.080 Actually, there is no such thing as color in the outside world. 15:17.360 --> 15:18.920 No object has its own color. 15:20.080 --> 15:23.380 Color is merely an interpretation produced in our brains. 15:24.380 --> 15:26.700 To have a better understanding of this, 15:27.300 --> 15:30.400 let's examine how our computers interpret colors. 15:30.400 --> 15:36.000 Computers only work with electrical currents. 15:38.140 --> 15:42.800 Have you ever wondered about that vibrant yellow hue you see when you look at a lemon? 15:42.800 --> 15:49.360 Does lemon yellow really exist in the real world? 15:49.360 --> 15:54.960 And when a lemon is displayed on our computer monitors, 15:55.480 --> 15:58.000 assuming no paint is seeping through the wires, 15:58.800 --> 16:01.680 how exactly is that yellow produced? 16:04.260 --> 16:05.700 Let's take a closer look. 16:07.000 --> 16:09.240 Zoom in on the lemon image on your screen. 16:09.240 --> 16:14.560 You'll see that the color yellow is actually made up of countless tiny pixels. 16:15.980 --> 16:18.160 Each pixel contains three tiny lights. 16:19.240 --> 16:21.680 Red, green, and blue. 16:23.700 --> 16:25.280 Billions of times per second, 16:25.760 --> 16:28.280 an electric current flows through computer cables. 16:29.440 --> 16:32.360 The language of these currents is quite simple. 16:33.320 --> 16:35.260 Low voltage is zero. 16:36.100 --> 16:38.540 High voltage is one. 16:39.240 --> 16:41.480 In other words, 16:41.920 --> 16:43.840 just present or absent. 16:46.780 --> 16:51.020 These ones and zeros are converted into numbers by the processor. 16:52.080 --> 16:57.200 And these numbers determine how brightly each color light in the pixel on the screen will shine, 16:57.820 --> 17:02.220 with values ranging from zero to 255. 17:02.220 --> 17:09.280 Thus, new colors can be created from the mixture of red, green, and blue. 17:09.280 --> 17:14.020 In the case of the lemon example, 17:14.020 --> 17:16.760 the computer gives the following command. 17:16.820 --> 17:19.140 Red, 255. 17:19.440 --> 17:20.860 Green, 250. 17:21.440 --> 17:23.320 Blue, 205. 17:23.320 --> 17:38.360 And when we look, we see that the electricity coming through the cables is interpreted and displayed as yellow. 17:38.360 --> 17:47.020 Our computers are pre-programmed to interpret electrical currents at certain values as yellow. 17:47.020 --> 17:52.820 So, what is real in this case is how the electricity is interpreted. 17:52.820 --> 17:57.600 The yellow itself is not real. 17:57.600 --> 17:59.680 The yellow itself is not real. 18:03.680 --> 18:05.640 What about our brains? 18:05.640 --> 18:09.580 The human brain behaves in a similar way. 18:09.580 --> 18:12.300 When we look at a lemon, 18:12.300 --> 18:14.820 the photons reflected from it, 18:14.820 --> 18:17.920 which are not actually the colors themselves, that is, 18:17.920 --> 18:22.160 light particles hit our eyes, 18:22.160 --> 18:25.120 stimulate the cells in the retina, 18:25.120 --> 18:29.300 and these stimuli are converted into electrical signals. 18:30.700 --> 18:32.980 Our brain interprets these signals 18:32.980 --> 18:35.580 and assigns a meaning to that wavelength. 18:36.200 --> 18:37.320 And the brain says, 18:37.320 --> 18:42.020 the defined counterpart of this electrical current in me is yellow. 18:48.980 --> 18:50.100 In reality, 18:50.900 --> 18:51.980 neither lemons are yellow, 18:52.240 --> 18:53.460 nor does light have a color. 18:55.120 --> 19:00.120 Everything we see is nothing more than the interpretation of electrical signals, 19:00.120 --> 19:02.120 along with all their details. 19:03.120 --> 19:06.120 The electrical signals that reach our brains from our eyes 19:06.120 --> 19:08.120 are made meaningful for us. 19:09.120 --> 19:13.120 These signals are constantly recreated as colors in our minds. 19:15.120 --> 19:16.120 In reality, 19:16.120 --> 19:18.120 everything is transparent. 19:20.120 --> 19:23.120 Neither electric current nor photons have color. 19:23.120 --> 19:26.120 colors are constantly being recreated in our brains. 19:26.120 --> 19:31.120 The lemon we think that we see is actually an image created in our minds. 19:35.120 --> 19:36.120 It is God, 19:36.120 --> 19:37.120 the Lord of the worlds, 19:37.120 --> 19:41.120 who created this perfect order and determined colors for us. 19:41.120 --> 19:47.120 God draws attention to this subject in the Qur'an as follows. 19:50.120 --> 19:53.120 I seek refuge in God from the accursed Satan. 19:53.120 --> 19:54.120 God's color. 19:54.120 --> 19:55.120 God's color. 19:55.120 --> 19:56.120 And what color could be better than God's? 19:56.120 --> 19:58.120 It is Him we worship. 19:58.120 --> 19:59.120 God's color. 19:59.120 --> 20:00.120 God's color. 20:00.120 --> 20:01.120 And what color could be better than God's? 20:01.120 --> 20:02.120 God's. 20:02.120 --> 20:03.120 It is Him we worship. 20:03.120 --> 20:04.120 God's color. 20:04.120 --> 20:05.120 God's color. 20:05.120 --> 20:06.120 And what color could be better than God's color. 20:06.120 --> 20:07.120 God's color. 20:07.120 --> 20:08.120 And what color could be better than the Lord of the world? 20:08.120 --> 20:09.120 It is the same. 20:09.120 --> 20:10.120 God's color. 20:10.120 --> 20:11.120 God's color. 20:11.120 --> 20:28.540 Sound is actually a vibration that does not exist at all. 20:29.440 --> 20:35.180 It is an electrical signal created when waves in the air strike the small bones in our ears. 20:35.180 --> 20:42.760 Neither a note has any real existence, nor does a melody have a shape that travels through the air. 20:45.400 --> 20:50.000 We actually hear those sounds, that music, inside our brains. 20:53.140 --> 20:54.740 The tone of an instrument. 20:57.180 --> 20:58.900 The voice of a person. 20:58.900 --> 21:05.160 They are all just signals interpreted in our brains. 21:05.940 --> 21:08.900 There is actually no sound outside our brain. 21:09.580 --> 21:11.100 Absolute silence reigns. 21:11.900 --> 21:17.080 What exists in the external world are merely physical vibrations called sound waves. 21:17.080 --> 21:25.800 The transformation of these vibrations into meaningful sound occurs not outside or in our ears, but within our brain. 21:26.420 --> 21:29.880 Thus, there is no music actually playing outside. 21:38.720 --> 21:40.920 It plays inside us. 21:40.920 --> 21:46.300 In the Quran, God says, 21:46.960 --> 21:51.280 I seek refuge in God from the accursed Satan. 21:54.720 --> 22:04.560 Everything in the heavens and everything in the earth glorifies God, the sovereign, the holy, the almighty, the wise. 22:04.560 --> 22:11.620 There is a rhythm in every point of the universe. 22:12.660 --> 22:16.540 Atoms, stars, hearts. 22:19.120 --> 22:21.900 All are part of the same divine orchestra. 22:24.900 --> 22:27.060 Everything ceaselessly glorifies God. 22:27.060 --> 22:32.740 I seek refuge in God from the accursed Satan. 22:36.020 --> 22:42.560 Do they make things into partner gods which cannot create anything and are themselves created? 22:52.560 --> 22:53.080 Touch. 22:57.060 --> 23:00.580 Just think about it. 23:01.280 --> 23:04.620 You reach out your hand and feel that touching something. 23:10.200 --> 23:11.980 But are you really touching it? 23:16.620 --> 23:19.740 Physically touching something is actually impossible. 23:19.740 --> 23:23.860 Think of a basketball player. 23:24.600 --> 23:27.280 They appear to be holding the ball tightly with both hands. 23:27.940 --> 23:32.780 Their fingers touch the surface of the ball as if they are gripping it by applying pressure. 23:33.860 --> 23:36.820 However, this is just an illusion. 23:38.240 --> 23:43.620 In reality, the atoms on the player's fingers never touch the atoms on the ball. 23:43.620 --> 23:49.420 As atoms approach each other, the electrons surrounding them also approach each other. 23:50.460 --> 23:54.360 At that moment, the electromagnetic force comes into play. 23:55.480 --> 23:58.460 The electrons repel each other via virtual photons. 23:58.460 --> 24:06.560 And this repulsion is so strong that it is impossible for two atoms to actually touch each other. 24:07.260 --> 24:11.960 So, her fingers holding the ball do not actually touch the ball's surface. 24:12.460 --> 24:18.180 It is only the repulsive force between atoms that creates a sense of contact in our brains. 24:18.180 --> 24:22.600 At that moment, we think we are touching something. 24:23.400 --> 24:29.500 However, what we call touch is only an electrical signal interpreted by the brain. 24:30.340 --> 24:37.920 That being the case, it would not be wrong to say we have never truly touched single thing in our entire lives. 24:38.620 --> 24:41.940 This physical reality leads us to a deeper truth. 24:41.940 --> 24:49.720 Everything we think we touch is actually just a perception formed in our brain. 24:51.920 --> 24:57.400 One might approach senses of sight, hearing, and smell with skepticism. 24:59.160 --> 25:04.960 But the sense of touch gives the impression that the outside world truly exists. 25:04.960 --> 25:12.660 However, in reality, touch, like other senses, is a signal generated in the brain. 25:13.780 --> 25:20.300 If the brain doesn't receive that signal, even if a person touches a substance, they cannot feel it. 25:27.560 --> 25:31.320 I seek refuge in God, from the accursed Satan. 25:31.320 --> 25:39.600 The skins of those who fear their Lord, tremble at it, and then their skins. 25:40.600 --> 25:44.460 And hearts yield softly to the remembrance of God. 25:56.240 --> 25:57.840 What about the pain that we feel? 25:57.840 --> 26:02.680 Pain feels so real, doesn't it? 26:05.980 --> 26:08.820 When we bump our knee, we feel that ache instantly. 26:10.020 --> 26:12.500 It's as if the pain is coming from inside our knee. 26:13.400 --> 26:17.080 Yet scientifically, the situation is very different. 26:18.360 --> 26:22.420 At the moment of impact, the nerve endings under the skin are stimulated. 26:22.420 --> 26:31.820 These stimuli become electrical signals and are transmitted to the brain, to the pain center via the spinal cord. 26:32.540 --> 26:34.320 The brain interprets these signals. 26:35.160 --> 26:40.880 In other words, the location, intensity, and form of the pain are formed in the brain. 26:40.880 --> 26:50.780 However, the electrical signals reaching the brain are coded in such a way that we perceive the pain as coming from a specific part of the body. 26:51.460 --> 26:55.700 In reality, there is no consciousness in that area that feels the pain. 26:56.240 --> 26:58.400 Our knee is not even aware of its own pain. 26:58.400 --> 27:08.580 If pain is only generated inside the brain, then who suffers? 27:08.580 --> 27:14.420 Is it your body that you see in the mirror that is suffering? 27:14.980 --> 27:20.100 Or is it your soul that observes the electrical currents within your brain as images? 27:20.100 --> 27:28.280 Just like the images we see, the pains we feel are also perceptions generated in the brain. 27:29.060 --> 27:39.180 With the interpretation of different electrical signals, in the brain at the same time, both the image of falling and the sensation of pain occurs. 27:39.860 --> 27:46.480 Just like the images that we see, the pain we feel is also a perception produced within the brain. 27:50.100 --> 27:55.440 In other words, we both see our knee hit something and feel the pain of knee. 27:57.920 --> 28:02.860 Yet both of these experiences occur at the same center, which is our brain. 28:05.200 --> 28:08.460 However, neither the knee hurts nor the image suffers. 28:11.740 --> 28:19.140 Both the pain and the image are perfect perceptions created by God in our brain, just like a dream scene. 28:20.100 --> 28:28.160 Every pain, every feeling, every sensation is a miracle specially created by God. 28:28.160 --> 28:36.740 I seek refuge in God, from the accursed Satan. 28:38.800 --> 28:44.600 God brought you out of your mother's wombs, knowing nothing at all, 28:45.240 --> 28:51.980 and gave you hearing, sight, and hearts, so that perhaps you would show thanks. 28:51.980 --> 28:53.660 Thank you. 28:58.660 --> 29:00.640 Taste. 29:08.480 --> 29:11.400 Taste is... 29:12.020 --> 29:14.600 One of the most enjoyable senses in our lives. 29:18.700 --> 29:19.920 A piece of chocolate. 29:19.920 --> 29:26.920 a fresh lemon, 29:29.920 --> 29:34.920 or your favorite fruit. 29:34.920 --> 29:40.920 All of them carry an almost unreal happiness on the tip of our tongue. 29:44.920 --> 29:48.920 But have you ever wondered where these tastes actually originate? 29:48.920 --> 29:53.920 Let's take a look together. 29:53.920 --> 29:58.920 There are four basic chemical receptors on the human tongue. 29:58.920 --> 30:03.920 Sweet, 30:03.920 --> 30:09.920 salty, 30:09.920 --> 30:15.920 bitter, 30:15.920 --> 30:20.920 and sour. 30:20.920 --> 30:27.920 Just as countless colors appear on computer screens through the combination of red, green and blue in different proportions. 30:27.920 --> 30:36.920 Similarly, different combinations of these four taste receptors on our tongue create thousands of distinct taste sensations. 30:36.920 --> 30:49.920 These receptors detect the chemical substances in the food we put in our mouths with every bite and convert them into electrical signals through a series of complex processes. 30:49.920 --> 30:54.920 When these signals reach the brain, the brain interprets them. 30:54.920 --> 30:58.920 And this is what we call taste. 30:58.920 --> 31:06.920 When you eat a slice of cake, the image of the cake formed in your brain is combined with the sweetness signal formed in your brain. 31:06.920 --> 31:12.920 When these two perceptions combine, the feeling that makes you enjoy that cake emerges. 31:12.920 --> 31:25.920 While you are eagerly eating the cake, the only thing happening on your tongue is the conversion of a few chemicals into electrical signals. 31:25.920 --> 31:30.920 The taste experience actually occurs entirely in your brain. 31:30.920 --> 31:35.920 So, you never directly perceive objects in the external world. 31:35.920 --> 31:40.920 You cannot see, smell, or taste the lemon itself. 31:40.920 --> 31:53.920 You only perceive how your brain interprets that object. 31:53.920 --> 32:05.920 If your taste buds were to stop working for even a moment, your brain would never be able to taste it even if you ate your favorite food in the world. 32:05.920 --> 32:10.920 And your sense of taste would be completely lost. 32:10.920 --> 32:17.920 Don't be taken in by how vivid and real the taste of everything you eat feels. 32:17.920 --> 32:25.920 All the flavors you think you taste are nothing, but a perfect perception created in your brain. 32:25.920 --> 32:28.920 Here is what scientific facts tell us. 32:28.920 --> 32:35.920 What we call taste is not the external world itself, but the meaning our mind assigns to it. 32:35.920 --> 32:43.920 In reality, nothing is inherently salty, sweet, sour, or bitter. 32:43.920 --> 32:54.920 What we call taste arises when electrical signals generated by the tongue receptors that detect chemicals in food reach the brain. 32:54.920 --> 32:59.920 And the brain interprets these signals. 32:59.920 --> 33:04.920 Things we eat actually has no real taste. 33:04.920 --> 33:11.920 For example, bitterness is actually a perception that is already present in your brain. 33:11.920 --> 33:17.920 When electrical signals corresponding to the sensation of bitterness reach the brain from the tongue, 33:17.920 --> 33:20.920 the brain interprets these signals, and you think, 33:20.920 --> 33:24.920 yes, this pepper is really hot. 33:24.920 --> 33:32.920 It is God, the Lord of the worlds, the possessor of infinite power and strength, 33:32.920 --> 34:00.920 who created this perfect system of taste perception, allowing us to perceive all varieties of tastes, sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and many more with all their subtleties. 34:00.920 --> 34:10.920 I seek refuge in God from the accursed Satan. 34:10.920 --> 34:23.920 It is he who produces gardens, both cultivated and wild, and palm trees and crops of diverse kinds, and olives and pomegranates, both similar and dissimilar. 34:23.920 --> 34:31.920 Eat of their fruits when they bear fruit, and pay their due on the day of their harvest, and do not be profligate. 34:31.920 --> 34:33.920 He does not love the profligate. 34:33.920 --> 34:34.920 Smell. 34:34.920 --> 34:47.920 If you ask someone, how do you smell? 34:47.920 --> 34:54.920 They will most likely answer, with my nose. 34:54.920 --> 34:57.920 However, this is not as accurate as we think. 34:57.920 --> 35:07.920 Gordon Shepard, a professor of neurology at Yale University, explains this as follows. 35:07.920 --> 35:26.920 We think we smell with our nose, but it's like saying we hear with our earlobes. 35:26.920 --> 35:41.920 Our sense of smell operates on the same basic principles as our other senses. 35:41.920 --> 36:04.920 The visible part of the nose is merely an entryway, and its function is limited to drawing odour molecules from the air, the volatile molecules responsible for the scents of vanilla, rose, or lavender. 36:04.920 --> 36:10.920 Travel to the olfactory epithelium, deep inside the nasal cavity. 36:10.920 --> 36:15.920 There, they interact with specialized receptors on the cilia. 36:15.920 --> 36:24.920 This interaction is rapidly converted into electrical signals, which are then interpreted by the brain's olfactory center. 36:24.920 --> 36:33.920 What we perceive as smell is simply the brain's interpretation of these electrically induced signals. 36:33.920 --> 37:00.920 Whether pleasant, or unpleasant, the scent of perfume, flowers, food, or a sea breeze. 37:00.920 --> 37:10.920 All the scents you like or dislike are not outside, but are created in your mind. 37:10.920 --> 37:15.920 Moreover, scent molecules never reach our brain. 37:15.920 --> 37:21.920 Just like with sound and sight, the only thing that reaches your brain are electrical signals. 37:21.920 --> 37:36.920 So all the scents we perceive are simply the brain's electrical interpretation of molecules coming from the outside world. 37:36.920 --> 37:46.920 In this case, the direction of the smell is also irrelevant, because all smells, which we believe come from outside, are actually perceived at a single point. 37:46.920 --> 37:51.920 The olfactory center in our brain. 37:51.920 --> 37:56.920 The smell of cake seems to be coming through the oven. 37:56.920 --> 38:02.920 The smell of food seems to spread from the kitchen. 38:02.920 --> 38:07.920 The smell of flowers comes from the garden. 38:07.920 --> 38:16.920 And the smell of the sea seems to be carried hundreds of meters by the wind. 38:16.920 --> 38:24.920 All these scents are formed in your brain, regardless of where you think they come from. 38:24.920 --> 38:35.920 There is no such thing as a scent coming from the world outside the brain, either right or left, front or back. 38:35.920 --> 38:40.920 Every scent is perceived at a single center, at the same point. 38:40.920 --> 38:45.920 We mistakenly believe this perception derives from the matter outside. 38:45.920 --> 38:58.920 Just as the image of a flower is formed in your brain, not your eyes, the scent of that flower is formed not in your nose, but within your olfactory center. 38:58.920 --> 39:03.920 Even if there is a real scent outside, it is never possible to reach its true form. 39:03.920 --> 39:08.920 You may only perceive it as the interpretation of your brain. 39:08.920 --> 39:14.920 The philosopher George Berkeley, who realized this truth years ago, said 39:14.920 --> 39:25.920 At first, colors, smells, etc. were thought to exist in reality. 39:25.920 --> 39:35.920 But afterwards, such views were rejected, and it was found that they exist only by virtue of our sensations. 39:35.920 --> 39:57.920 It is God, the Lord of the worlds, who creates countless scents in our minds, who directs us to the source of these scents, all-powerful and possesses superior artistry. 39:57.920 --> 40:04.920 I seek refuge in God from the accursed Satan. 40:04.920 --> 40:08.920 He laid out the earth for all living creatures. 40:08.920 --> 40:17.920 In it are fruits and date palms with covered spaths, and grains on leafy stems and fragrant herbs. 40:17.920 --> 40:21.920 So which of your Lord's blessings do you both then deny? 40:34.920 --> 40:53.920 The outside world comes alive before us, like an immense painting filled with colors, sounds, and textures. 40:53.920 --> 41:08.920 Yet, the very place all this splendor is created is in pitch darkness, and absolute silence. 41:08.920 --> 41:15.920 The 1.5 kilogram piece of flesh inside our skulls. 41:15.920 --> 41:23.920 In this secure box where no light ever gets in, and no sound ever echoes. 41:23.920 --> 41:27.920 Billions of electrical signals collide every second. 41:27.920 --> 41:40.920 Well, if the phenomenon we call matter is merely a low-quality electrical current, then what is the structure we call the brain itself? 41:40.920 --> 41:55.920 If the brain constructs a universe for us by interpreting electrical currents from the outside world, then isn't our knowledge of the brain itself also merely an interpretation? 41:55.920 --> 42:09.920 When we see ourselves in a mirror, or observe our brain in an MRI machine, we are actually observing an image presented to us by our brain. 42:09.920 --> 42:14.920 So, is the brain matter itself? 42:14.920 --> 42:21.920 Or is it also an illusion, similar to our dreams? 42:21.920 --> 42:32.920 The truth is, even if we accept our brain as a solid substance rather than an illusion, we still face a great mystery. 42:32.920 --> 42:39.920 Science tells us, reality itself is nothing but energy. 42:39.920 --> 42:54.920 Modern physics has proven that the atoms and electrons that make up our brains, like everything else, are not solid objects, but energy packets vibrating at specific frequencies, and condensed wave functions. 42:54.920 --> 43:06.920 When we descend to the subatomic level, the fundamental structure of matter, which we thought was stable, gives way to a deep void and vibration. 43:06.920 --> 43:12.920 If everything is energy in its essence, then is it energy? 43:12.920 --> 43:14.920 Who perceives energy? 43:14.920 --> 43:23.920 If the brain itself is an energy fluctuation, like everything else, then who is it that sees, hears, and says, 43:23.920 --> 43:35.920 I am here, does our mind belong to some truth beyond this universe of perceptions? 43:35.920 --> 43:42.920 To understand this amazing game of our mind, let's look into the depths of sleep again. 43:42.920 --> 43:47.920 In a dream, you may see yourself as a skilled brain surgeon. 43:47.920 --> 43:51.920 You feel the cold metallic scalpel in your hand. 43:51.920 --> 43:57.920 You see the folds of the brain you are operating on in the finest detail. 43:57.920 --> 44:03.920 At that moment, that brain is absolute reality for you. 44:03.920 --> 44:25.920 However, when you wake up, you realize that neither the scalpel you used during the operation, nor the brain you operated on, nor even your entire body in the dream, including the brain in your dream, actually exist. 44:25.920 --> 44:31.920 You realize that all of these are a fiction created in your mind. 44:31.920 --> 44:39.920 What is the difference between your brain in this world, which you believe to be awake, and that imaginary brain in your dreams? 44:39.920 --> 44:56.920 If everything feels so complete and real in a dream, how can we be sure that our current experience will not end with a higher sense of awakening? 44:56.920 --> 45:04.920 All these wonders of the universe are actually a continuous masterpiece shown to that sublime being we call the soul. 45:04.920 --> 45:08.920 In this process of viewing, brain is merely a vehicle. 45:08.920 --> 45:16.920 An interface, when everything we perceive as physical is transformed into flashes of energy at the subatomic level. 45:16.920 --> 45:18.920 Only one truth remains. 45:18.920 --> 45:28.920 This stunning artistry is a manifestation constantly created by our Lord, the possessor of infinite wisdom. 45:28.920 --> 45:32.920 Everything created is a shadow, an illusion. 45:32.920 --> 45:38.920 The only eternal and real being is God, the Lord of the worlds. 45:38.920 --> 45:54.920 We are watching His art, the beauties offered to us with the Spirit that comes from Him. 45:54.920 --> 46:00.920 I seek refuge in God from the accursed Satan. 46:00.920 --> 46:02.920 They will say, Alas for us! 46:02.920 --> 46:06.920 Who has raised us from our resting place? 46:06.920 --> 46:10.920 This is what the all-merciful promised us. 46:10.920 --> 46:12.920 The messengers were telling the truth. 46:30.920 --> 46:40.920 The Venice of the present,llowing the Mozambique and Davos and Hale of the людям. 46:40.920 --> 46:41.920 The galleon. 46:42.920 --> 46:44.920 Thegang of TheIR Anguirus. 46:44.920 --> 46:46.920 The Edge of the ayudar and the dead is not very qu stimulation. 46:46.920 --> 46:48.920 If you remember this may have been itself in love for one, just at the end of the world, 46:48.920 --> 46:51.920 If you don't feel a couple ofипedes of ADV or the dead, you'll definitely be allowed to know how that invitation to say hië. 46:51.920 --> 46:53.920 Tell your所, how you missed the century. 46:53.920 --> 46:55.920 The last month of the snail on November is the event of 11-1-2-0. 46:55.920 --> 46:56.920 Thisweek time movement is the pleasure, Gene-iph ilk. 46:56.920 --> 46:57.920 If you give yourself 12 years.