The Perception of Reality

Why at all is everything in the universe the way it is? From where has come the material to make the structure- the atoms of the periodic table that in different combinations make the entire world around us.

What was there before big bang? If everything was just one big primeval atom then how and why did the blasting of that atom create material? How is it that the atoms and the molecules that we are made of make life and yet the same atoms and molecules become useless in a special condition of an object called death?  The most lethal of all questions is not what matter is – but why is it? Why?

This Universe is made up of all living and all non-living, the sentient/responsive  and the insentient then the fact that one part of this universe is aware of the other part and also of self to a certain extent is indeed very intriguing.

Einstein said that - the most incomprehensible thing about this Universe is that it is comprehensible.

From where has this factor of ‘awareness’ come in the structure of predominantly material Universe? How do genes know what to manifest in an organism in certain way and not in other organism? Why is it that one person’s idea of happiness and beauty and sorrow is very different from other, why do we so heavily rely on perception, do we know that everything is relative, and how do we know that we know , how many of us do not know that we do not know anything,  who is that aware entity that knows that we had a deep sleep when most of our brain is shut down...and yet we are aware of our deep sleep( I slept like a log), who is this who is aware?

Someone said that the essence of growing is asking, and when one stops asking one stops growing. Either everything is a wonder or nothing is a wonder. Let us assume a hypothetical experiment and place an isolated brain in a jar and subject it to conditions in such a way so that is stays alive. This brain is then connected to a computer and a scientist feeds idea sot this brain. The brains assume that it is a brain is a male – this brain is then fed with data of what it likes and does not like , parents, and emotions that must predominate it’s thoughts etc The brain then starts thinking the data that is has been fed.

Are we just what we have been fed  into most of the time? Yes!

Then what is independent existence? What is reality?

Is perceiving anything the way we perceive reality?

Is our programming – our conditioning a reality? And who has programmed us the way we have been programmed?

Can we ever comprehend that which is not a part of our memory?  

Can we for a minute think that just as the dreams that we dream and when wake up know that we were dreaming could be it- that we are a part of someone’s dream?

Can we consider all this to be illusion?

Does your brain hurt right now? Does this sound wishy washy to you? Metaphysics is a combination of confusions and puzzles and the lack of any common sense as in assuming we understand what commons sense is makes this abstraction baseless and maddening to even comprehend let alone think that there may be some truth in all this.

If we say that the real is that which exists then what is the meaning of this word EXIST?

If we are real then are the dreams too real? If the dreams that appear so real when we are dreaming become unreal when we wake up- the dream was still real but the characters of the dream are unreal then do we have unreal part of us in real us- the waking state.

I think I must stop here.