{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 198/1920-07-09/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"We as human beings have the ability to educate ourselves through our perceptions, through our thinking about the world. But we do not think much about the special peculiarity of this thinking. This thinking does have a special peculiarity, because it is actually unnecessary in relation to the outer life. We do not usually realize this. Apart from the fact that animals can also live, can find their food, can reproduce themselves between birth and death, without thinking in the human way, apart from that, we can see from this that we can also perform certain lower tasks of we can also perform certain lower tasks of life if we do not think in a human way. We only have to devote ourselves to a somewhat more thorough consideration of life and we will immediately see how thinking is actually unnecessary for the external physical life. We cannot rely on thinking at all when it comes to certain things. Right, we do science. Take any science, for example physiology, through which we learn about the way in which human organs function. In physiology, we learn, as well as it is possible in the materialistic or spiritual realm, to recognize what the digestive process is. But we can never wait for the thinking recognition of the digestive process; we have to digest properly first. We would get nowhere in life if we had to wait until we had thought about digestion, until we had realized it. We have to carry out the digestive activity without thinking, and so too the other activities of our organism. It is precisely with regard to what we do as human beings that thinking always comes afterwards. 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Abgesehen davon, daß die Tiere auch leben können, ihre Nahrung aufsuchen können, sich fortbringen zwischen Geburt und Tod, ohne daß sie in der menschlichen Weise denken, abgesehen davon, daß man schon daraus entnehmen kann, daß wir gewisse niedere Aufgaben des Lebens auch verrichten können, wenn wir nicht auf menschliche Weise denken, brauchen wir ja nur einer etwas gründlicheren Lebenserwägung uns hinzugeben, und wir werden gleich sehen, wie für das äußere physische Leben das Denken eigentlich unnötig ist. In bezug auf gewisse Dinge können wir uns gar nicht auf das Denken verlassen. Nicht wahr, wir treiben Wissenschaft. Nehmen Sie irgendeine Wissenschaft heraus, zum Beispiel die Physiologie, durch die wir uns über die Art und Weise unterrichten, wie die menschlichen Organe funktionieren. Wir lernen in der Physiologie, so gut es auf materialistischem oder auf spirituellem Gebiet geht, erkennen, welcher Art der Verdauungsvorgang ist. Aber wir können niemals warten auf das denkende Erkennen des Verdauungsvorganges; wir müssen vorher regelrecht verdauen. Wir würden im Leben nicht fortkommen, wenn wir warten müßten, bis wir über das Verdauen gedacht haben, bis wir das erkannt haben. Wir müssen die Verdauungstätigkeit unbedacht ausführen, und so auch die anderen Tätigkeiten unseres Organismus. Gerade mit Bezug auf dasjenige, was wir als Menschen ausführen, kommt das Denken immer hinterher. 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