Are the sensations of reality, including the “delivery of things as they are” created by the brain and its processing chemistry, or is it a direct connection? Is emptiness real and then what role does pure consciousness play in it? The world is material and exists independently of consciousness – no doubt here, that is a fundamental aspect of science as we used to know it. The human brain as the pinnacle of nature’s complexity reflects and processes the reality of matter through several levels – but nevertheless – continues to exist in its own juice

“One cannot contrast a thing as it is ‘in itself’ with what it appears to be from our limited, partial perspective; this visibility is more important than the thing in itself, for it determines how a given thing fits into the scheme of its relations with others.”