(December 30, 2013 at 10:35 am)FractalEternalWheel Wrote: We see and understand the world/life with our emotions and thoughts,but if we remove all those thoughts and emotions do we see reality as it is or is there something else that is blocking us from seeing true reality.
Our emotions and our thoughts don't really block us from seeing reality. In a very really sense, it's pretty much meaningless to speak of an "I" who can perceive the world outside of emotion and thought, because those things, together with sense perception, go together to make up our consciousness. Without them, a person's body might still exist and could even still be alive, but without any ability to think or comprehend.
We don't perceive the world as it really is, because the structures that give us the ability to consciously comprehend reality also interpret that reality. As an example, the cones in our eyes have pigments that are affected by certain wavelengths of light. Those cause the cones to send a signal to the brain to comprehend a certain color. The wave of light isn't actually that color (it isn't any color, because color is just a mental structure used to interpret the world). We perceive things as solid and joined together when they're really mostly empty space because like-charges in the atoms of our skin and of an external thing repel one another without having to touch. Time is a dimension, like the spacial dimensions, but because of the way our consciousness works, we experience it differently than the way that we experience other dimensions (for some reason that no one is really all that sure of).
We can understand how the world is different from the way that we perceive it, but on some level, it's always going to somewhat incomprehensible. Thinking about it too much is kind of like staring into the abyss, only instead of staring back, it starts ranting off gibberish about wave functions.
