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On reflection, however, we cannot help realizing: Anatomy and physiology make a valiant attempt to penetrate and analyse the bodily functions from without; yet looking from within, we ourselves, by means of ordinary consciousness, do not know anything about the interrelationship between our spiritual element and our bodily functions. A glance at the simplest bodily function controlled by the will, the lifting of an arm or movement of a hand, tells us: First there exists in us the thought or concept of this arm-lifting or hand-movement. How this thought or concept flows down into our organism, however, how it informs our muscles, and how finally there comes about what again we know only through observation—what actually goes on inside remains hidden from ordinary consciousness. So, too, in that wonderful mechanism that physics and physiology show us, the human eye or some other sense-organ, there remains hidden the spiritual element that informs this wonderful mechanism.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. Anthroposophy and Psychology","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-06-02","location":null,"word_count":266,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/83/1922-06-02/p008","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"B. A. 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Wir empfinden, wie dieses Geistig-Seelische weiter hinuntersteigt in unsere Leiblichkeit, wie wir unsere Willensorgane mit diesem Geistig-Seelischen ergreifen und dann zum wachen, besonnenen Menschen werden, der sich seines Leibes, seines Organismus bedienen kann. Aber wenn wir uns nun.besinnen, so müssen wir uns sagen: Trotz aller Anatomie und Physiologie, die ja von außen in großartiger Weise die Leibesfunktionen zu durchschauen, zu analysieren bestrebt sind: von innen angeschaut, wissen wir Menschen durch das gewöhnliche Bewußtsein zunächst nichts von dem, was da als ein Wechselverhältnis besteht zwischen unserem Geistig-Seelischen und unseren leiblichen Verrichtungen. Wenn wir die einfachste Leibesverrichtung, die aus dem Willen hervorgeht, ins Auge fassen, das Erheben des Armes, das Bewegen der Hand, müssen wir uns sagen: Zunächst sitzt in uns die Vorstellung, der Gedanke dieses Armhebens, dieser Handbewegung. Wie aber dieser Gedanke, diese Vorstellung hinunterströmt in unseren Organismus, wie er eingreift in unser Muskelsystem, wie zuletzt das zustande kommt, was wir doch wiederum nur durch Anschauung selber kennen: was da im Innern eigentlich vorgeht, es bleibt dem gewöhnlichen Bewußtsein verborgen ebenso wie verborgen bleibt in jenem wunderbaren Mechanismus, den uns die Physik und Physiologie zeigen, im menschlichen Auge oder in einem anderen Sinnesorgan das Geistig-Seelische, das in diesen wunderbaren Mechanismus eingreift.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":286,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/83/1922-06-02/p008"}],"english":["GA 83/1922-06-02/p008"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":286,"en_words":266,"ratio":0.93,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.94,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6877,"original_word_count":7314,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"B. 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