Chapter 3 spirit and matter

Human beings often have commonly used nouns, but the meaning of which cannot be clarified for a while, such as spirit is one example. Mind versus matter, let's talk about matter first.Roughly speaking, matter is something that can be seen, heard, heard, and touched by skin, hands, and feet.Spirit and matter are relative, so spirit should be invisible, inaudible, and intangible.Invisible, inaudible, and intangible, only the perception and experience of the human heart can be used.Therefore, we say that the spirit is invisible, inaudible, and intangible, and can only be verified by people's inner awareness.This thing, which is immaterial to what it perceives, is also immaterial to what it perceives.To put it plainly, he is only the self of man's inner realization.The so-called inner heart is actually just some enlightenment, and what is awakened is still that enlightenment.The two sides of energy and energy are absolutely not involved in material components, so they are also invisible, untouchable, and untouchable.Let’s talk about it in detail below.

Life and matter stand side by side, matter is insensible, life is sentient, vegetation and plants can also be said to have consciousness, but their consciousness is still in a state of numbness and coma.The consciousness of the animal is gradually awakened, gradually out of the state of stupor and numbness, but the animal can only say that he has consciousness, not that he has a heart, and it is not until humans have a heart.Consciousness is born by receiving external impressions, and the mind is born by self-realization.Therefore, in the consciousness of animals, there is only the physical world, not the spiritual world.The spirit only exists in the human heart. As far as its capabilities are concerned, we often confuse the human heart with the spirit, which is okay.

How is the human heart developed and completed?Human beings should have only consciousness at first, and no heart.In other words, like animals, he can only accept the concrete physical world that can be seen, heard, heard, and touched outside. When those external substances that can be seen, heard, heard, and touched are gone, his perception of those substances also disappears.He has to wait for other things that can be seen, heard, heard, and touched to touch his eyes, eyes and body before he can have another batch of new perceptions emerge.Perception is thus largely passive and permanent.It must wait for those perceptions to become impressions, which remain and will not disappear. In this way, perceptions will turn into memories, and memories are just perceptions of what he has perceived in the past. .The function of memory has not been developed until human beings.When the memory of human beings develops, they begin to have human hearts.Mojing said: know, take it.Human perception is born of contact with the external material world.But perceptions become impressions and accumulate, while the perceptions of the mind are gradually able to separate from what is given by the material world and become independent.You can become conscious without waiting to be in contact with them.In other words, the mind can perceive itself, that is, it can perceive the impressions it has retained in the past, that is, it can remember.Thus we can say that memory is the origin of the human psychic phenomenon.

How can human beings retain the impressions produced by his perception of the external material world, so as to recall and commemorate it?An important tool here is language and writing.The function of language is to identify and deepen impressions from the outside.And at the same time it can be multiplexed.Some higher animals may not be able to have memories and commemorations, but they are vague and general, not clear, and not profound, otherwise they are limited to simplicity, not broad, not complex.Why?Because they don't have a language, they can't sort out the impressions they get from outside contact and make them organized and categorized.For example, if you have many things or many things that cannot be recorded in the account books, they will eventually be vaguely forgotten and lost.Human beings invented language, so that they can classify all the impressions they get from the outside, and give them a voice and a name. In this way, the objects gradually remain in the inner layer of perception and turn into images or mental images, which gradually merge into one another. To the spiritual world.It can also be said that the image and mental image are embodied in the sound to make it objectified.Writing is also the symbolization of language.Since there are words, with those symbols, the function of the heart has improved.Human beings use sound (language) to form impressions, and then use pictures (text) to replace sounds. With language, there is extracorporeal recognition, and with words, there is extracorporeal memory.In other words, it is to concretely objectify the functions of recognition and memory of the mind into language and characters, so language and characters are the outward appearance and outward dependence of the functions of the human mind, which is the specific objectification of the functions of the human mind.Therefore, we say that language (including writing) is gradually produced from perception (the initial manifestation of the function of the mind), and then the mind is gradually produced from language (including writing).This heart is the spirit, and its function is also the spirit.

Human beings cannot have memory without language. Even if they can have memory, it is not a high-level memory of human beings like other animals.When you are remembering, it is tantamount to whispering in your heart.With memory, there can be no thought.Memory is the material of thought, and if you have no memory in your mind, what material will you use to think.Human thought is just a silent language in the heart. Without language, thinking becomes impossible.Thought is just silent speech, just silent speech. Other animals cannot speak, so they cannot think. Human beings can speak, so they can think.According to the theory of common sense, it should be that the human mind is thinking, and after thinking, it is expressed in language and words. But if we look at its source from a distance, it should be said that human beings began to develop thinking because of language and writing, because you have Thought, you begin to realize that you yourself seem to have a mind.Physiologically, the heart is just the gathering and distributing place of blood, while the physiologically brain is the center of perception and memory.Neither is the heart mentioned here.From the physiological brain to the spiritual heart, most of it is due to language and writing.

Thanks to language and writing, human perceptions began to communicate with each other into a great storehouse.The small and short hearts of human beings have become vast and long-lasting, and the human heart energy has jumped out of their heads and is deposited outside the super-physical body.If you regard the functions of the human heart as electricity flowing in the sky, language and writing are like wires and accumulators.This heart is vast and long-standing, super-individual and external, and all humanistic evolution originates from this heart.We therefore refer to this as the spiritual world.

This spiritual mind, because it is superindividual, is also immaterial.Why?Because human beings have language and writing, they can come into contact with the memory and thoughts of another person outside from one person. This layer is self-evident.According to the above, if we believe that memory and thought are originally placed on language and developed from language, then language is a common property of human beings and cannot be divided into yours and mine. For the same reason, we It can also be said that memory and thought should be common to all human beings in essence, and they cannot be divided into yours and mine.In other words, the human brain and hands belong to the physical aspect and the material aspect, which can be divided into you and me. The human heart is non-physiological and belongs to the spiritual aspect. Its essence has long been common and common, and it cannot be divided into you and me. .To put it plainly, the so-called heart is just the accumulation of various memories and thoughts, and all kinds of memories and thoughts need to be completed by using language and writing. Language and writing are not my own, so how can my heart be my own?As long as you have mastered the common language and characters in your social group, you will be able to accept all kinds of memories and thoughts in your social group.Scholars who read classics and study history and philosophy well, let alone here, even for an illiterate person, as long as he can speak, he has accepted immeasurable memories and thoughts of his social group. , filled his brain and formed his heart.Suppose there is a person who is deaf from birth and can never hear outside sounds, so he cannot learn speech from the beginning, and is blind from birth, so he cannot learn and use various characters and symbols invented by human beings.This person should only be said to have a brain, but not a heart.He should only have perception, no memory or thought.Even if he has memory and thoughts, he can only be like other advanced animals. According to our discussion above, he can only be said to have access to the outside material world, but not the outside spiritual world.That is, the human spiritual world.Therefore, he is just a person with a brain but no heart, just a person who lives a material life and cannot touch the spiritual life.According to the above, our so-called spirit is not something that exists innately in nature, but it evolves through history in humanistic society.But as far as the individual is concerned, he does have the objective existence of the super ego.In other words, he is indeed innate.