Essays and the Nature of Us

I am horrible at writing essays. I try to have a catchy opening, and I fail miserably. I try to add in details that add substance, and I fail miserably. I cannot express my ideas in writing very clearly. Maybe clarifying some ideas on this blog will help me to create a strong essay.

I've been working on an essay about us as humans. Where is our intellect stored in relation to the "real world"? It is my belief that our minds, our intellects, ourselves are held seperate from the reality of realness by a barrier, through which brick pinpricks of light break through and serve as channels for information. These channels are our senses. No mortal human can in full measure understand the purest nature of reality because our senses are always there, acting as an interface into our brains. Reality itself as humanity and mankind sees it is just the result of collective translation of reality to a form our brains can understand. For example, the taste of something is just a property of something that is so real we cannot comprehend it. Our taste takes that property of the real object and transforms it into something our brains can understand; we only perceive it as taste. All matter is energy, and all energy is linked somehow, but we cannot understand that because our brains can only see through those little pinpricks of light in the isolating barrier, or membrane...or...perhaps...veil? All matter has certain properties that can only be sensed and acted upon by our bodies. Perhaps matter as we know it is just energy with a few more properties than pure energy. Perhaps all energy has certain properties; in the case of most matter that we can sense, the property of the ability to be sensed by the senses that we have could be a property (yeah, you might need to read that sentence one more time). Everything is linked, but the intelligences that were organized before the world was as independent, free willing agents sit isolated, taking streams of input from several channels and acting out its decisions through several channels like muscles.

The next important concept is deciding whether our consciese selves, the thoughts that we can think, are part of this independent mind or part of the output of this independent mind, and we have some sort of sensor in our brain that senses the output of our souls/ourselves to our minds and repeats the message? Is there a distinction between what is truely the most pure form of us and the mind and consciese that we can feel every day? In other words, is there another component besides just our physical bodies and brains and the electrical impulses therein? Of course, we know the answer to that. There is - our spirit and our body are two different things.

OK, I'm sorry I can't explain stuff better. However, it was good to philosophize. Who knows - I might be incorrect on all this stuff. Remember, it's just a theory, and completely subject to change.