Chapter 16 science and life

science and life Scientifically minded, calm, and purely rational truth-seeking, these are the mantras of ordinary modern intellectuals.But the world as a whole is not at all calm, nor purely rational.The whole of life is not calm, nor is it purely rational.If science is nothing but calm and pure intellect, then the whole world, like the whole of human life, is not scientific at all.May I ask how you can grasp the truth of the whole world and the whole life with a scientific mind, a calm, and a purely rational attitude. Open your eyes and listen, what is the real color, what is the real sound.Audio-visual is fundamentally a movement, fundamentally tinged with hot blood, fundamentally mixed with emotions and desires.Without your ears, hearing and eyesight, where can there be real sound and real sight.Therefore, the so-called real sound and real color have actually been involved in the warm blood of people, and they are all attached to human emotions and desires.Science should also belong to life, and the truth of science cannot escape the truth of life.If you calm down the heat and blood of life, wash away the emotions and desires in life, and dissipate them, you can seek the so-called scientific truths. Those scientific truths are good for life, at least they must have disadvantages, and there must be disadvantages for both advantages and disadvantages.

Human anatomy is said to be a necessary procedure for scientists to seek knowledge about the human body.However, the human body is a living mechanism composed of blood and flesh. When the blood cools down, the flesh is cut off, and the living mechanism becomes dead. One only seeks knowledge about the living from the corpse. How can this kind of knowledge be true? ?Facing a lively stranger, you must never be calm-headed, you must never be purely rational.When you walked into the dissection room, in front of you was a dead body, your mind was calm at that time, and you were treating him purely rationally.But don't forget that life is not a walking dead.The family, or indeed any group, is the place of life, not the place of corpses.If you really want to walk into your family and any group of people with the same mind and mood as you walked into the dissection room, you will never know the truth of life.Some knowledge gained from human anatomy may be useful for some kinds of physiological diseases, but diseases are not vitality.Your training and habit of walking into the human dissection room are not applicable to the whole life, the lively life.

Treat the living as if it were dead first, and then look at the living after you get used to seeing the dead. There are many dangers in this, and you should be careful.Anatomy has been used many times in the history of Chinese medicine, but it has been criticized many times, and it is said that it is also the same in Western history.This is not to say that dissection of dead bodies does not yield knowledge of certain parts of the living body.Mostly in the minds of the opponents, I am afraid that you have developed the mental habit of treating the living as if they were dead.That's cool, pure reason and a scientific mind.Opponents' excuses are always said to be inhumane.Yes, calm, pure reason, is inhumane.Humanity is the movement of heat and blood, the exchange of emotion and desire, how can it be calm, how can it be pure reason.If science must be calm and pure reason, then science is inhumane.This layer has to be extra careful when applying the knowledge gained from inhuman science to life.

What scientists require is that they should be calm-headed and purely rational, and that they should have a specific situation outside, and that the situation should be simple and infinitely repeatable.That's the best way for him to come to the truth.But the whole world, the whole life, is not simple at all, it is not constant at all, it is always new, and the situation will never come back, and we must not stay in the same state and repeat it endlessly.Therefore, the world and life are not scientific at all, at least part of them are not scientific, and this part is an important part.Let us use artificial methods to simplify the complex situation outside on special occasions, and then force it to repeat endlessly, so that we can obtain some knowledge we want.However, this is really just a few.If you take these things as everything, if you think that the outside world and life are as simple as everything in your laboratory, and can be repeated endlessly, scientific knowledge is useful, but your mental habits But it is very harmful.And the usefulness of the knowledge you acquire will not outweigh the deeper and greater harm of the habits of mind you acquire.

It turns out that a scientist has closed himself in a specific situation. He withdraws himself from the whole world and life, so he can calm down and use pure reason to repeat endlessly about certain simple situations. research.The knowledge they have acquired can be applied in some places in the whole world and in the whole life. Let us still keep these scientists closed in specific occasions. Doctors who study human anatomy are still closed in the dissecting room. Use the knowledge gained from dissecting the human body, but we don't want a purely anatomical medicine.Science can be used in life, but we cannot have a purely scientific life.Science is just a way, a method, to seek knowledge.We can use scientific knowledge, but we cannot ask for pure scientific knowledge.Otherwise, we must greatly liberate scientific attitudes and scientific methods, whether we can also put heat and blood into science, and infiltrate human emotions and desires into science, so that science can enter the vast and complex scenes of life, Have all the ever-changing and ever-changing state of affairs also become the object of scientific research?This should be a new object and a new effort for human beings to seek knowledge.

The former science, we call him natural science, and the latter science will be humanities.Modern western science starts from natural science, and we are eager for a new kind of humanities to emerge.Humanities and nature cannot be separated, but nature cannot be used to swallow humanity.Humanities should start from nature, and use nature to create humanities.We need complex, dynamic and passionate life sciences to use those simple static and purely intellectual non-life natural sciences.