{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 206/1921-07-22/p015","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But now this last group of senses is modified by something else. You must recall something I said here a few weeks ago.[^2] Let us consider the human being in relation to what he perceives through these last four senses. Although we perceive our own movement, our own balance, in a decidedly subjective manner, this movement and this balance are nevertheless quite objective processes, for physically speaking it is a matter of indifference whether it is a block of wood that is moved, or a man; whether it is a block of wood in balance or a man. In the external physical world a man in movement is exactly the same thing to observe as a block of wood; and similarly with regard to balance. And if you take the sense of life—the same thing applies. Our sense of life conveys to us processes that are quite objective. Imagine a process in a retort: it takes its course according to certain laws; it can be described quite objectively. What the sense of life perceives is such a process, a process which takes place inwardly. If this process is in order, as a purely objective process, this is conveyed to you by the sense of life; if it is not in order, the sense of life conveys this to you also. Even though the process is confined within your skin, the sense of life transmits it to you. To sum up, an objective process is something which has absolutely no specific connection with the content of your soul-life. And the same thing applies to your sense of touch. When we touch something, there is always a change in our whole organic structure. Our reaction is an organic change within us. Thus we have actually something objective in what is brought about through these four senses, something that so places us as human beings in the world that we are like objective beings who can also be seen in the external sense-world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"The Twelve Senses: Mapping Human Perception and Consciousness","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Da müssen Sie sich erinnern an etwas, das ich vor einigen Wochen hier gesagt habe. Nehmen Sie den Menschen in bezug auf das, was durch diese letzten vier Sinne wahrgenommen wird; es sind, trotzdem wir die Dinge wahrnehmen — unsere eigene Bewegung, unser eigenes Gleichgewicht -, es sind, trotzdem wir das, was wir wahrnehmen, auf entschieden subjektive Weise nach innen hin wahrnehmen, dennoch aber Vorgänge, die ganz objektiv sind. Das ist das Interessante an der Sache. Wir nehmen diese Dinge nach innen hin wahr, aber was wir da wahrnehmen, sind ganz objektive Dinge, denn es ist im Grunde genommen physikalisch gleichgültig, ob, sagen wir, ein Holzklotz sich bewegt oder ein Mensch, ob ein Holzklotz im Gleichgewicht ist oder ein Mensch. Für die äußere physische Welt in ihrer Bewegung ist der sich bewegende Mensch ganz genau ebenso zu betrachten wie ein Holzklotz; ebenso mit Bezug auf das Gleichgewicht. Und wenn Sie den Lebenssinn nehmen, so ist es zunächst allerdings nicht in bezug auf die äußere Welt - scheinbar allerdings nur —, aber es ist so, daß das, was unser Lebenssinn übermittelt, ganz objektive Vorgänge sind. Stellen Sie sich vor einen Vorgang in einer Retorte: er verläuft nach gewissen Gesetzen, kann objektiv beschrieben werden. Das, was der Lebenssinn wahrnimmt, ist ein solcher Vorgang, der nach innen gelegen ist. Ist er in Ordnung, dieser Vorgang, ganz als objektiver Vorgang, so übermittelt Ihnen dieses der Lebenssinn, oder ist er nicht in Ordnung, so überliefert Ihnen der Lebenssinn auch das. Wenn auch der Vorgang in Ihrer Haut eingeschlossen ist, der Lebenssinn übermittelt es. Ein objektiver Vorgang ist schließlich gar nichts, was zunächst mit dem Inhalt Ihres Seelenlebens einen besonderen Zusammenhang hat. Und ebenso beim Tastsinn; es ist immer eine Veränderung in der ganzen organischen Struktur, wenn wir wirklich tasten. Unsere Reaktion ist eine organische Veränderung in unserem Inneren. Wir haben also durchaus in dem, was wir mit diesen vier Sinnen gegeben haben, eigentlich ein Objektives gegeben, ein solches, was uns als Menschen so in die Welt hineinstellt, wie wir im Grunde genommen als objektive Wesen sind, die auch in der Sinneswelt äußerlich gesehen werden können.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":363,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/206/1921-07-22/p015"}],"english":["GA 206/1921-07-22/p015"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":363,"en_words":330,"ratio":0.91,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5289,"original_word_count":5188,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Dorothy Lenn","identified_edition":"APC1958","book_title":"Man as a Being of Sense and Perception","publisher":"Anthroposophical Publishing Co.","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA206/English/APC1958/19210722p01.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row","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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