{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 93a/1905-10-30/p016","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In human beings, thinking is localised in the head. With the animal, for instance the tiger, consciousness is on the astral plane. Outside the head what may be called a focal point is formed through which the tiger is affected. When the tiger feels pain this goes over on to the astral plane. With the tiger the organ for this is in front of the head, at the place where the brow is in the case of man. With man this place is already enclosed within the head and it is filled with the frontal brain; consciousness has been imprisoned through the brain and the front part of the skull and is therefore on the physical plane. In the case of the tiger, and indeed of all animals, the focal point of consciousness lies in front of the head, in the astral: from there it goes into the astral world. In the case of the plant things are again different. Could we follow its consciousness, going from above downwards, we would always come out at the tip of the root. If then we were to follow the line of growth, we would come to the centre of the earth. There is the collecting point of all the sensations, the suction point of the consciousness of the plant. It is in direct connection with the mental world. The entire plant world has its consciousness on the mental plane.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XXVII","site_heading":"The Three Logoi and Creation of 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. Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote it.","date":"1905-10-30","location":null,"word_count":237,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/93a/1905-10-30/p016","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length+anchor_constrained","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Vera and Judith Compton-Burnett","identified_edition":"RSP1982","book_title":"Foundations of Esotericism","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA093a/English/RSP1982/19051030p01.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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/93a/1905-10-30/p016"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/93a/1905-10-30/p016","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"listeners_notes","scope":"volume","note":"Written from listeners' notes, summaries, or memory rather than a shorthand transcript. The wording is the note-taker's as much as Steiner's: weigh a single striking phrase here far more cautiously than the same phrase in a stenographic volume, and do not rest an argument on one word.","evidence":"Notizen von einem esoterischen Lehrgang","evidence_translation":"Notes from an esoteric course","evidence_source":"Rudolf Steiner Verlag Gesamtverzeichnis 2022, volume subtitle. The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one."},"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1905-10-30","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 93a/1905-10-30/p016","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/93a/1905-10-30/p016"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":199,"en_words":237,"ratio":1.19,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 93a/1905-10-30/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"Beim Menschen ist das Bewußtsein im Kopfe lokalisiert. Beim Tier, zum Beispiel beim Tiger, ist das Bewußtsein auf dem Astralplan. Es schafft sich außerhalb des Kopfes einen gewissen Angriffspunkt, durch den es auf den Tiger wirkt. Wenn der Tiger Schmerz empfindet, dann geht der Schmerz auch über auf den Astralplan. Das Organ dafür ist bei dem Tiger vor dem Kopfe, an der Stelle, wo beim Menschen die Stirne ist. Beim Menschen ist der Punkt bereits in den Kopf eingeschlossen und mit dem Vorderhirn ausgefüllt; es ist das Bewußtsein eingefangen worden durch das Gehirn und den Vorderschädel und ist daher auf dem physischen Plan. Bei dem Tiger und überhaupt bei allen Tieren liegt der Knotenpunkt des Bewußtseins vor dem Kopfe, im Astralen, da geht es in die Astralwelt hinein. Bei der Pflanze ist es wiederum anders. Wenn wir ihr Bewußtsein verfolgen könnten, würden wir, von oben nach unten gehend, immer an der Wurzelspitze herauskommen. Wenn wir dann die Linie des Wachstums verfolgen, so würden wir an den Mittelpunkt der Erde kommen. Da ist der Sammelpunkt aller Empfindungen, der Aufsaugepunkt des Bewußtseins der Pflanzen. Er steht direkt in Verbindung mit der mentalen Welt. Die gesamte Pflanzenwelt hat ihr Bewußtsein im Mentalen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":199,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/93a/1905-10-30/p016"}],"english":["GA 93a/1905-10-30/p016"],"method":"length+anchor_constrained","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":199,"en_words":237,"ratio":1.19,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.12,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":3250,"original_word_count":2890,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Vera and Judith Compton-Burnett","identified_edition":"RSP1982","book_title":"Foundations of Esotericism","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA093a/English/RSP1982/19051030p01.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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 93a/1905-10-30/p016"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}}