Emotions are intrinsically good and bad

[Transcended Dimensions]

When I was referring to perceiving something, I was, in fact, talking about seeing something.  So, my sight analogy still applies.

Then you were equivocating over what was already a fundamentally dubious analogy.  I'm not sure why you'd want to defend that rather than modify it.  Is this part of the enlightenment?

Then go by my god/spiritual analogy which could also take on a secular form if we are living in a universe where there is no god/supernatural:

Our brains would be transceivers that pick up on divine energy in this universe.  This divine energy is sheer intrinsic goodness itself.  It engulfs our conscious being and puts us into a divine state that is known as a positive emotion.  It is through our positive emotions that we truly see the good value and beauty that things and situations hold on a whole new level that goes far beyond simply acknowledging these values.  We truly see our lives as being worth living as opposed to simply acknowledging it as being so.

There is a huge difference between acknowledging values and perceiving values as I've said before.  Through our positive emotions, we see the goodness, joy, love, and beauty through the eyes of god, so to speak, as opposed to through the eyes of a mere biological being/machine who can only think of words and acknowledge things and situations.  I will give a religious analogy to get my point across.  We can still use whatever analogy we want as long as it gets our point across regardless of how nonsensical the analogy sounds. 

You, as an unsaved sinner, can never see the magnificence, love, and beauty of Jesus without his holy light within your inner being.  It doesn't matter how much you acknowledge the existence of his magnificence and love.  You need his holy light in order to truly see his love and beauty for what it truly is.  As long as you don't have his holy light within you, then you are living like a machine and your standard of living is nothing at all.  In that same sense, our positive emotions are like the light of Jesus as they allow us to truly see the beauty, worth, and good value that things and situations hold.  Without them, then our standard of living is nothing at all (a no quality standard).  Likewise, our negative emotions would be like the opposite of Jesus' light (the inner darkness).  They are what allow us to truly see things as horrible, disgusting, etc.