What is consciousness without thought?
RICHARD: Apperception. Which is the minds ability to perceive itself. Thus I am the sense organs: this seeing is me, this hearing is me, this tasting is me, this touching is me, this smelling is me, and this thinking is me. Whereas I, the identity, am inside the body: looking out through my eyes as if looking out through a window, listening through my ears as if they were microphones, tasting through my tongue, touching through my skin, smelling through my nose, and thinking through my brain. Of course I must feel isolated, alienated, alone and lonely, for I am cut off from the magnificence of the actual world … the world as-it-is. I am condemned to live everlastingly in the land of sorrow and malice, forever lamenting my fate. I am eternally separate from the benignity of the actual, where the utter absence of any angst and anger at all is infinitely more rewarding than the deepest, the most profound, beauty there is in the real world.
