Mehmet Akif Çetin: When a thing is known, it acquires a second existence, a mental existence; the thing becomes a thought. If familiarity did not dull us, we would find this utterly remarkable, unparalleled in all the Lmiverse. No galaxy, no physical energy, no cell, no animal can do this; only a mind can give a thing a second life. Every language speaks of the human mind, or intellect, as doing something more than the (animal) senses do: as going “deeper” or “below the surface” or “penetrating” what is sensed, like an X-ray; as going beyond appearances to reality, beyond seeing to understanding.

When a thing is known, it acquires a second existence, a mental existence; the thing becomes a thought. If familiarity did not dull us, we would find this utterly remarkable, unparalleled in all the Lmiverse. No galaxy, no physical energy, no cell, no animal can do this; only a mind can give a thing a second life. Every language speaks of the human mind, or intellect, as doing something more than the (animal) senses do: as going “deeper” or “below the surface” or “penetrating” what is sensed, like an X-ray; as going beyond appearances to reality, beyond seeing to understanding.

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