What is the difference between a definition and an emotion?
A definition is a precise definition, while an emotion is only the recognition of the repetition of experiences, where our reaction is already known, but there is not yet enough information to create a definition.
There is no such concrete dividing line between our definitions and our emotions, because our definitions are not identical to the definitions created by God.
The regularity of recurring experiences points to laws, which first appear in the form of emotions, as long as there is not yet a sufficient amount of information for intellect to create a definition in some form for the appearance of the repetitions.
When it is already possible to create a definition, the repetition appearing in the experiences becomes conscious to the extent of the precision of the definition, but as long as the definition is not precise, the emotion is also present in the experience. The more precise the definition becomes through further experiences, the less the emotion accompanies the experience.
The emotion weakens because we become increasingly able to define precisely what will happen when the experience appears again. When enough experience is available for us to reconstruct the law created by God in our definition, the emotion disappears, because it is no longer necessary; precisely what we expect according to our definition happens, because the true law that determines reality becomes known to consciousness.
The sequence of experiences, however, does not only acquaint us with the law, but also with the appearing emotion, whose functioning we come to know just as we come to know the law in question. By knowing the law, the possibility of knowing further laws opens up for us, because further laws connected to the known law also become perceptible and interpretable thanks to the new knowledge.
Therefore, new laws appear in further experiences, which likewise cannot be precisely defined within only a few experiences, and so new emotions appear during the experiences, while previous emotions also appear in a new context.
Our emotions are therefore important, indispensable elements of knowing in the process of knowing, because as long as the interpretation of our experiences is not completely precise, emotions make the I complete; our definitions, with which consciousness identifies, are able to exist complemented by our emotions.
The question asked, “What is the difference between a definition and an emotion?”, is therefore itself imprecise, because our definitions created through experiences can exist only together with the emotions that appear during the experiences, because in reality everything can exist only in complete harmony. Our emotions are thus complements to our definitions until they are completely identical to the laws that God has determined.
Harmony is not present as long as our definitions are imprecise, therefore the task of the appearing emotions is to maintain harmony in the world. Through emotions, any definition can appear during our experiences that can be created from our experiences.
Only those definitions are unable to appear in reality that contradict our experiences to such an extent that even the appearance of emotions is no longer able to bring them into harmony with the appearance of reality.
Emotions therefore complement our definitions while they are imprecise, and the will appearing through emotions, as a compelling force, also regulates our actions, even against our conscious will.