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In contrast to this, it seems perfectly logical when the phenomenon of sleep is presented in such a way that during waking hours in the sensory world, through his intellectual and muscular activity, man accumulates so-called fatigue substances in his organs, which no longer enable him to develop the strength to continue to live while awake. The countervailing forces of the organism then assert themselves, the consciousness of being awake extinguishes, and those forces then restore the organism during sleep, so that it is able to work again with full vigor with all its organs and so on. Many naturalists think that the alternating state of sleeping and waking is based on a self-regulation of the healthy organism, so that it is not necessary to assume that, to explain sleep, a spiritual part separates from the physical-etheric body, removes from it, and both parts unfold a restorative activity - without any actual self-awareness.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":211,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/69e/1912-01-10/p015","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Spiritual Science and the Future of Humanity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA069e/English/SOL2024/19120110p01.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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Is it something like that which is otherwise in the organism, for example, that of the constantly active human lungs, which take care of breathing, since they must also be imbued with the inner organic life with nourishment and organic forces? This inner organic activity, which nourishes the lungs, cannot alone be the cause of the movement; and the absorption of oxygen from the air by the lungs themselves cannot be replaced by this inner nutrition, for it has nothing to do with it. The same applies to the brain and nervous system, which are also supplied and nourished internally. 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Im Gegensatz dazu erscheint es durchaus logisch, wenn die Erscheinung des Schlafes so vorgestellt wird, dass der Mensch während des Wachens in der Sinneswelt durch seine Verstandes- und Muskeltätigkeit sogenannte Ermüdungsstoffe in seinen Organen anhäufe, die es ihm nicht mehr möglich machen, Kräfte zu entwickeln, um ein Wachleben weiterhin zu entfalten. Die Gegenkräfte des Organismus machen sich dann geltend, das Wach-Bewusstsein erlischt, und jene Kräfte stellen dann den Organismus im Schlafe wieder her, sodass er imstande ist, von Neuem vollkräftig mit allen seinen Organen zu arbeiten und so weiter. Viele Naturforscher [also] denken so, dass der Wechselzustand von Schlafen und Wachen auf einer Selbstregelung des gesunden Organismus beruhe, dass man also nicht nötig habe, zur Erklärung des Schlafes anzunehmen, dass sich vom physisch-ätherischen Körper ein Geistiges trenne, aus ihm entferne und beide Teile eine wiederherstellende Tätigkeit entfalteten - ohne ein eigentliches Selbstbewusstsein.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":198,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69e/1912-01-10/p015"},{"locus":"GA 69e/1912-01-10/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"Ein solcher Einwand kann für denjenigen eine Klippe bilden, der sich der Theosophie näher zuwenden will, und ein solcher Einwand soll daher nicht unterschätzt werden bei einem gewissenhaften Menschen. Aber wenn man auch als richtig annimmt, dass der Organismus in Beziehung auf Schlafen und Wachen ein Selbstregler ist, dass also nach der Ermüdung die in den Organen hervorgerufene Störung durch die Wiederherstellung der Lebenskräfte ausgeglichen wird, so muss doch die Frage aufgeworfen werden, und zwar als eine prinzipielle, fundamentale: Was kann der Organismus in Bezug auf seine Organe im Schlafe tun? Es muss doch von einer eigenartigen Lebenstätigkeit herrühren, wenn Augen, Ohren, Gehirn, Nervensystem und sonstige innere Organe im Schlafe mit neuer Lebenskraft ausgerüstet werden. Aber welcher Art ist diese Wiederherstellung der organischen Tätigkeit? Etwa eine solche, wie sie auch sonst im Organismus ist, zum Beispiel die der stets tätigen menschlichen Lunge, welche die Atmung besorgt, da sie ja doch auch noch von dem inneren organischen Leben mit Nahrung und organischen Kräften durchsetzt werden muss? Diese innere organische Tätigkeit, welche die Lungen ernährt, kann nicht allein die Ursache der Bewegung sein; und die Aufnahme des Sauerstoffs der Luft durch die Lungen selbst kann nicht durch jene innere Ernährung ersetzt werden, denn damit hat sie nichts zu tun. So auch beim Gehirn und Nervensystem, das ja auch innerlich organisch versorgt, ernährt wird. Aber ebenso wenig hat die im Schlafe erfolgende innere Wiederherstellung von Gehirn und Nervensystem mit dem etwas gemeinsam, was durch unsere Sinne an Empfindungen und Wahrnehmungen und unser Gehirn an Gedanken uns durchfließt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":254,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69e/1912-01-10/p016"},{"locus":"GA 69e/1912-01-10/p017","passage_number":17,"text":"So kann also die innere organische Tätigkeit nichts geben, was sie - Sinne und Gehirn - zu denkenden, fühlenden Organen macht, sonst würde ja durch den schlafenden Menschen irgendetwas in Beziehung auf seine Seele besorgt werden können, eben so, als wenn man durch die innere organische Ernährung der Lungen etwas über die innere Natur des Sauerstoffs feststellen wollte. 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