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All we are in physical contact with, of course, is the energy applied to the sensors. - (Tribesmen of Gor, Chapter 11, Sentence #192)

When the sky is reflected in this rising, heated air, the mirage is even more striking, because then the surface of the "lake," reflecting the sky, seems blue, and, thus, even more waterlike. A second common sort of mirage, more private than the first, but quite normal, is the interpretation of a mixed terrain, usually rocks and scrub brush, mixed with rising heat waves, as an oasis with water, palms and buildings. Perception is a quite complicated business, involving the playing of energies on the sensors, and the transduction of these energies into an interpreted visual world. All we are in physical contact with, of course, is the energy applied to the sensors. These physical energies are quite different from the "human world" of our experience, replete with color, sound and light. There is, of course, a topological congruence between the world of physics and the world of experience. Evolution has selected for such a congruence. - (Tribesmen of Gor)