{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 80b/1921-01-28/p037","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The brain thinks just as little as one can say – let me express myself with a comparison: someone walks along a muddy road, or a car drives along a muddy road, and the footsteps or wheel tracks that one steps or drives into the ground become visible. Now someone comes along and says: There are all kinds of shapes in the ground, so I have to assume that below the ground there are forces at work that shape forms, footsteps. Anyone looking for these forces in the ground will, of course, search in vain. They must assume that something completely different is involved, something that has nothing to do with the ground, except that the ground must be there, because otherwise one would sink into the abyss. The ground must be there, but it is only the foundation. However, what causes the forms in the ground is something that has nothing to do with the ground. In the same way, thinking and imagining have nothing to do with the brain other than the brain provides the physical substrate on which the soul-spiritual develops, making its impressions. No wonder when the physiologist or anatomist comes and says: Yes, everything that takes place in the soul can also be seen in the brain. You see it, but the soul is what does it in the first place, the soul is expressed there. And it needs the brain for nothing other than to provide a kind of resistance, just as I need the ground when I cross the street. This is expressed by a comparison.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. 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Er muss voraussetzen, dass da etwas ganz anderes, was mit dem Boden nichts zu tun hat, als dass höchstens der Boden da sein muss, weil man sonst in den Abgrund hineinsinken würde. Der Boden muss ja da sein, aber er ist nur der Untergrund. Aber dasjenige, was da die Formen in dem Boden veranlasst hat, das ist etwas, was mit dem Boden nichts zu tun hat. Ebenso hat Denken und Vorstellen mit dem Gehirn nichts anderes zu tun, als dass das Gehirn den physischen Untergrund abgibt, auf dem sich das Geistig-Seelische — das man nun in der Tat schaut mit Geisteswissenschaft - entwickelt, indem es seine Eindrücke macht. Kein Wunder, wenn jetzt der Physiologe, der Anatom kommt und sagt: Ja, man schaut alles dasjenige, was sich in der Seele abspielt, auch im Gehirn. - Man sieht es, aber die Seele, die macht es erst, die Seele drückt sich da ab. Und sie braucht das Gehirn zu nichts anderem, als dass sie gewissermaßen einen Widerstand hat, so wie ich den Boden brauche, wenn ich über die Straße gehe. 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