{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 186/1918-12-15/p055","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"What, for instance, does present-day science know on one immensely important question, namely this: Purely materialistically speaking—what does thought or ideation depend on? What does the will depend on? In a certain direction? I can speak of these things today because, as I said before on another point, I have investigated them for thirty to thirty-five years. Ideation depends upon the fact that man has within him, in the course of the circulation of his blood, carbonic acid which is not yet breathed out. When carbonic acid not yet breathed out is circulating inside him, there you have the material counterpart, the material correlate of Thought. And when there is oxygen in man—oxygen not yet converted into carbonic acid, oxygen that is still on the way to transformation into carbonic acid; there, in a certain direction, you have the material correlate of the Will. Where oxygen pulsates in man—oxygen not yet entirely transformed, but fulfilling certain functions—there is the Will materially at work. And where inside the human body there is carbonic acid, not quite elaborated to the point of expulsion or out-breathing, there you have the material foundation for a Thought-form. But as to how these two poles, the Thought-pole, which we may also call the carbonic acid pole, and the Will-pole which we may also call the oxygen pole—as to how they are regulated, only a science of realities can tell. Nowhere in the books of today will you find such a truth as I have just expressed.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. The Metamorphosis of Intelligence","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-12-15","location":null,"word_count":250,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/186/1918-12-15/p055","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"C52","book_title":"The Fundamental Social Demand of Our Times","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA186/English/C52/19181215p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Wenn im Menschen Sauerstoff ist, der noch nicht zur Kohlensäure verarbeitet wurde, Sauerstoff, der auf dem Umwege zur Verarbeitung in Kohlensäure, zur Umlagerung in Kohlensäure ist, so ist das, nach einer gewissen Richtung hin, das materielle Korrelat für den Willen. Wo im Menschen Sauerstoff pulsiert, der noch nicht ganz verarbeitet ist und Funktionen hat, da ist materiell der. Wille betätigt. Wo im Innern des menschlichen Leibes schon Kohlensäure ist, die noch nicht ganz so bearbeitet wurde, daß sie ausgestoßen oder ausgeatmet wird, da ist die materielle Grundlage für eine Gedankenform. Aber wie diese beiden Pole, der Gedankenpol, der auch der Kohlensäurepol genannt werden kann, und der Willenspol, der der Sauerstoffpol genannt werden kann, wie diese Pole reguliert werden — das gibt nur eine Wirklichkeitswissenschaft. Nirgends finden Sie solch eine Wahrheit, wie ich sie Ihnen jetzt ausgesprochen habe, in heutigen Büchern. Weil man aber nicht das Denken mit Bezug auf eine solche Wirklichkeit schult, schult man das Denken auch nicht mit Bezug auf das, was notwendig ist für den heutigen Menschen in bezug auf die soziale Struktur. Das aber muß eintreten, das ist der Gegenwart notwendig, und das wird eintreten müssen, daß hinzugerechnet wird zu unserer sozialen Frage das geistig-seelische Sich-Hineinstellen des Menschen in die soziale Struktur.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":308,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/186/1918-12-15/p046"}],"english":["GA 186/1918-12-15/p055","GA 186/1918-12-15/p056"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":308,"en_words":325,"ratio":1.06,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.08,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":11244,"original_word_count":10438,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"C52","book_title":"The Fundamental Social Demand of Our Times","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA186/English/C52/19181215p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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