5.24 The sum of existence  (Page 3/3)

If someone is capable of clear thought then the conclusion they are going to reach (consciously or unconsciously) about their existence is that it should be positive. If someone actually has a soul (or a clear thinking unconscious) then that would be displeased with the idea of reality not being positive and therefore would get so upset that reality wasn’t positive that it would no longer exist. If things don’t agree on the conceptual, perfectly clear level of thinking arena then there isn’t an emotional battle or struggle like their might be in real life, either it works or it doesn’t work, like how you can’t get a partially right answer in math because it is so concrete, there is only one way for things to work because conceptually everything is perfect because it is so real or solid (concrete).

What if someone doesn’t know everything that they want? Someone can want things consciously and unconsciously. The ideal would be to get everything that you want unconsciously because the unconscious determines how you feel much better than the conscious. You can think that you want something but you might be consciously wrong. You cannot be unconsciously wrong because the unconscious is just feelings, and if something is going to make you feel better then your unconscious would feel that and “understand”. On the other hand you and your unconscious might not know everything that would make it feel better, it might not understand that if it was in a more complicated state (more developed) that it would then want that. The only thing to happen then is that it would have to be developed. But conceptually you might also want this development and that could occur as well as getting what it is that you want currently. Conceptually you are going to want what you want and it wouldn’t seem right if reality then didn’t take the next step and give you what you really wanted, which is a more complicated existence that would need to be developed. However that means that currently you aren’t at your highest point, and therefore aren’t getting what you really want. Except you also want development so it would it might be a trade off since you are only capable of wanting so much at one time, so you might sacrifice current pleasure to focus on wanting development. The natural tendency would be to want everything in the world at once, but that is simply not possible because it would overload you. Therefore not getting what you want is part of the human condition. You cannot simply take the “pleasure” factor of human existence and increase it infinitely. There are multiple components to life.

To achieve ultimate pleasure humans don’t just experience “pleasure” but there are other factors such as physical pleasure, emotional pleasure, physical stimulus, emotional stimulus, being at peace, being excited, there are other emotions aside from pleasure which all combine to make life (also thoughts). So reality and what you “want” is going to be very complicated. You achieving current satisfaction might not be satisfaction on the conceptual, intellectual level. You might be more satisfied that you are developing, or that some long term goal is going to be achieved then the current pleasure. An example of that would be not overeating and enjoying yourself because you know that in the long term you are going to get fat. Although currently you are going to be experiencing less pleasure by not overeating, you would also feel bad that you are sacrificing your long term health. There thought takes over from pleasure. Thought is one of the other components of life that seemingly defies pleasure because it can override it and leave you feeling less satisfied in the animal, pleasure like way but more satisfied on the conceptual, thought level. It also feels like this long term “problem” of doing things that reality requires is getting the way of current pleasure and that might make someone feel bad that they aren’t getting everything that they want right then.

Therefore what someone unconsciously wants fully might not be what it seems you might unconsciously want fully. There might be more advanced concepts involved in what you unconsciously fully want because of the long-term reality factor discussed in the previous paragraph. However if you understand that some things clearly are not going to be good for you then those things aren’t going to exist if they really aren’t good for you. You might be wrong, but if you conviction of belief that you understand something to be really bad for you and therefore shouldn’t exist is strong enough then it probably isn’t going to exist because you would be at odds with your existence. You cannot be at odds with your existence because who you are is someone that fundamentally is what they want (conceptually). As someone develops their convictions in what they want might become stronger, thereby causing reality to change to reflect this. But what about the unconscious? What if your fundamental existence, your singular point or even soul isn’t advanced enough to want more grand things. Like a rock doesn’t seem likes its existence is that meaning full. But the soul of the rock might only be capable of comprehending that it wants a sturdy, stable life. And that is what it is then going to receive. If someone’s soul was infinite conceptually then they might receive everything that they conceptually want, but what about what they physically want? Or are there even other factors in life other than conceptual or physical? Also what is really conceptual since all of life appears to actually be physical and therefore all concepts are based off of reality. The conceptual then is just a way of intellectualizing things. If someone was infinitely intelligent then would that mean that they don’t exist physically because they are so conceptual? It seems as if conceptual removes one from the physical because when one thinks their thoughts drift away from one singular physical thing that might be in front of them to more complex events in life, involving many more physical things which might be moving and therefore make them more intellectual and complex. Like the idea “I went to the store”, involves many physical and even emotional factors (like if you want to go to the store) but the idea of just some object in front of you is just physical and it is there and you can feel it more directly and therefore more intently. It is the same concept as if you were to do or experience the actions in a book it would be more intense then just reading the book. Just reading the book, however would probably be more intellectually intense because you are being less physical and can therefore focus more on the ideas and concepts in the book.

All those ideas and concepts that someone unconsciously wants then ties back into the “reality” factor where some things in the long term might be bad for you that would cause pleasure in the short term. That also ties into the idea that there are many components to life, many ways in which someone can feel that doesn’t really reflect what it might be that it seems like what they want. So going to back to the statement “someone fundamentally is just feelings and thoughts that want things and therefore your existence is going to reflect those feelings and thoughts” is actually much more complicated than it seems. You want things unconsciously and consciously. It seems though that if you don’t consciously understand everything that you want then your existence is simply going to be less because you cannot comprehend what it would be like to receive that reward (of what you want). If you cannot comprehend what it is that you want (consciously and unconsciously) then you probably aren’t going to be able to experience pleasure from it.