{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 125/1910-08-26/p030","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In the sense of what I myself must regard as a spiritual scientific movement, it is my most urgent wish that those who have a background in physiology and medicine should familiarize themselves with the facts of spiritual science to such an extent that they can work through the results of physiology in terms of their factual character. Next spring, I myself will only be able to draw the basic lines of this spiritual scientific physiology at most. A great deal of work needs to be done. Our physiological literature contains the most wonderful material, one has only to know it. But one must also know the borderlands, and one must know how physiology is influenced by a true psychology, which today is very much buried in the rubble. It would be a longing of spiritual research that those of us who are trained in physiology should take a strictly exact look at certain physiological-anatomical results of recent times. Indeed, anyone familiar with the factual material knows that in certain areas that are needed at the moment, nothing has been done. But anyone who appropriates what has already been achieved in this field can easily do so; by appropriating it, they adopt it productively. Then, if he is imbued with spiritual knowledge at the same time, he will not be in a position to create such a basis of physiology where, in the dissection of the organism, each organ is regarded as having the same value. What is the essential thing that prevents today's physiology from coming to the fore? It is that the organism is dissected. We have heart, lungs, liver and so on; we study them all as if they were organic members with equal rights. But that is not the case. All these individual members have different antecedents of their values. And in a piece of liver, you do not have the same matter in your hand as you do in a piece of heart muscle and the like. The point is that, in addition to what is provided by purely external sensory perception, a certain factor is added, which I cannot describe other than as a certain objective value of the organ in question. This will become clear to the physiologist once he undertakes the work of comparing an organ in the fully developed human organism with actual embryology. He will then realize that embryology today works so one-sidedly because it only follows an ascending process and not a parallel descending one. One only proceeds in the right way when one brings out in each stage of embryological development, as in a mathematical function, a factor of decadence and another of productivity. And when we are able to apply what we have learned about valence to the organ in its full form in the organism, when we do not simply juxtapose the heart and liver as equivalent organs – they are of a different qualitative valence – then we will stand before the moment when the great results of our world of physiological facts will receive the greatest light.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VI. The Present State of Philosophy and Science","site_heading":null,"date":"1910-08-26","location":null,"word_count":513,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/125/1910-08-26/p030","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Paths and Goals of Spiritual Man","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA125/English/SOL2024/19100826p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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In unserer physiologischen Literatur liegt das wunderbarste Material vor, das man nur kennen muß, aber man muß daneben auch die Grenzgebiete kennen, und man muß wiederum kennen, wie die Physiologie beeinflußt wird von einer wahren Psychologie, die heute sehr im Schutt begraben liegt. Da wäre es eine Sehnsucht der Geistesforschung, daß die physiologisch Gebildeten unter uns die streng exakte Umschau hielten über gewisse physiologisch-anatomische Ergebnisse der letzten Zeiten. Allerdings, wer das Tatsachenmaterial kennt, weiß, daß auf gewissen Gebieten, die man dann gerade brauchen würde, noch nichts getan ist. Das kann aber dann derjenige mit leichten Mitteln tun, der sich das aneignet, was auf diesem Gebiete schon geleistet ist; der es sich aneignet so, daß er es sich produktiv aneignet. Dann wird er, wenn er zu gleicher Zeit von Geist-Erkenntnis durchdrungen ist, nicht in die Lage kommen, eine solche Grundlage der Physiologie zu schaffen, wo man gleichsam in der Zergliederung des Organismus ein jedes Organ als gleichwertig betrachtet. Was ist das Wesentliche, das die heutige Physiologie nicht hochkommen läßt? Das ist es, daß man den Organismus zergliedert. Man hat Herz, Lunge, Leber und so weiter; man studiert sie alle, als wenn sie als gleichberechtigte organische Glieder nebeneinander lägen. Das ist aber nicht der Fall. Alle diese einzelnen Glieder haben verschiedene Antezedenzien ihrer Werte. Und man hat in einem Stück Leber nicht dieselbe Materie in der Hand, die man in einem Stück aus dem Herzmuskel und dergleichen hat. Da handelt es sich darum, daß man zu dem, was der rein äußere Sinnesbestand gibt, einen gewissen Faktor hinzufügt, den ich nicht anders bezeichnen kann als eine gewisse objektive Wertigkeit des betreffenden Organes. Dies wird sich ergeben für den Physiologen, wenn er einmal die Arbeit unternimmt, genau ein Organ in dem vollgestalteten menschlichen Organismus zu vergleichen mit einer wirklichen Embryologie. Da wird er darauf kommen, daß die Embryologie heute so einseitig arbeitet, weil sie gewissermaßen nur einen aufsteigenden Prozeß verfolgt und nicht einen damit parallel gehenden absteigenden. In der richtigen Weise geht man erst vor, wenn man in jedem Stadium der embryologischen Entwickelung etwas herausbringt, worin wie in einer mathematischen Funktion enthalten ist ein Faktor der Dekadenz und ein anderer Faktor der Produktivität. Und wenn man in die Lage kommt, das, was man so an Feststellungen der Wertigkeit gewonnen hat, anwenden zu können auf das Organ in seiner Vollgestaltigkeit im Organismus, wenn man nicht einfach nebeneinanderstellt Herz und Leber als gleichwertige Organe — sie sind von einer verschiedenen qualitativen Wertigkeit -, dann wird man vor dem Augenblick stehen, wo gerade die großartigen Ergebnisse unserer physiologischen Tatsachenwelt das größte Licht empfangen werden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":492,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/125/1910-08-26/p030"}],"english":["GA 125/1910-08-26/p030"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":492,"en_words":513,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7932,"original_word_count":7595,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Paths and Goals of Spiritual Man","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA125/English/SOL2024/19100826p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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