{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 80a/1922-01-26/p020","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Du Bois-Reymond believed – as he stated in his famous lecture “On the Limits of Natural Knowledge” – that the human being, as a conscious, waking being, is not transparent to his own knowledge, that this knowledge reaches certain limits when it comes to human consciousness. From the movements that the matter in our nervous system undergoes, we cannot understand — du Bois-Reymond said — how we feel: “I see red, I hear organ tones, I smell the scent of roses.” But du Bois-Reymond thought that ordinary natural science could be used to understand the sleeping person, in whom consciousness has dawned, and thus precisely that which, in his opinion, is unfathomable for ordinary natural knowledge. No! But through that in which natural science is great today, the sleeping person can be understood just as little as the plant. What pervades a being as life can only be seen in supersensible knowledge, in supersensible contemplation, as I have characterized it in my writings 'How to Know Higher Worlds' and 'Occult Science: An Outline' and in the two lectures already mentioned. What pervades man as a sleeping being, as invigoratingly as a plant, cannot be known through ordinary natural science. Here, man is only accessible as a physical being after he has died. And when he has died and lies before us as a corpse, we see how he begins to follow quite different laws from those he followed from birth or conception to death.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Anthroposophy and the Riddles of the Soul","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-01-26","location":null,"word_count":244,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80a/1922-01-26/p020","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":"The Essence of Anthroposophy","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA080a/English/SOL2024/19220126p01.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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Aus den Bewegungen, welche der Stoff in unserm Nervensystem durchmacht, können wir nicht begreifen — so meinte du Bois-Reymond —, wie wir empfinden: «Ich sehe rot, ich höre Orgelton, ich rieche Rosenduft.» Aber du Bois-Reymond meinte, man könnte mit der gewöhnlichen Naturwissenschaft den schlafenden Menschen begreifen, bei dem das Bewusstsein herabgedämmert ist, also gerade dasjenige, was auch nach seiner Meinung für das gewöhnliche Naturerkennen unergründlich ist. Nein! Sondern durch das, worin heute die Naturwissenschaft groß ist, kann der schlafende Mensch ebenso wenig begriffen werden wie die Pflanze. Was als Leben ein Wesen durchklingt, das kann erst geschaut werden in übersinnlicher Erkenntnis, in übersinnlicher Anschauung, wie ich sie charakterisiert habe zum Beispiel in meinen Schriften «Wie erlangt man Erkenntnisse der höheren Welten?» und «Geheimwissenschaft im Umriss» und in den beiden bereits erwähnten Vorträgen. Was den Menschen als schlafendes Wesen belebend so durchdringt wie die Pflanze, es kann nicht durch die gewöhnliche Naturwissenschaft erkannt werden. Hier ist der Mensch als physisches Wesen erst zugänglich, wenn er gestorben ist. Und wenn er gestorben ist und als Leichnam vor uns liegt, so sehen wir ja, wie er beginnt ganz anderen Gesetzen zu folgen, als diejenigen waren, denen er folgte von der Geburt oder der Konzeption bis zum Tode.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":252,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80a/1922-01-26/p020"}],"english":["GA 80a/1922-01-26/p020"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":252,"en_words":244,"ratio":0.97,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9357,"original_word_count":8959,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Essence of Anthroposophy","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA080a/English/SOL2024/19220126p01.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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