Title: The Fundamental Human Conjecture
Subtitle: A Philosophical Model of Identical
Universes, Lives and Minds
Author: Xin-Yan Zhang
E-mail: ink@hotmail.com
Draft Completed on: 18 Jan. 1998
revised on: 21 August 2002
Its Chinese
edition published in:
World
Hongming Philosophical Quarterly,
Vol.
2002 No. June, http://whpq.org/
CONTENTS:
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 2
UNIVERSES
CHAPTER 3
LIVES
CHAPTER 4
ORGANISATION
CHAPTER 5
MIND
No matter how little we might be aware of them, it is a fact that all
our thoughtful actions, all religions, all moral standards, all scientific
theories and all the social or economic systems are fundamentally based upon
some conjectures, because we exist as human beings in the middle of the
time and the space
Those conjectures do not take any phenomenon as their own selves,
however, they are our understanding of those phenomena; they are the platform
on which our knowledge from different scientific fields might communicate with
each other and might be unified as a whole; they are an interface ever between
the activities of human intelligence and their environment; and they are
complement to the gaps in our knowledge, those such as:
How is the existence behind
all phenomena?
What is the most macroscopic
and microscopic existence?
How did the universe begin?
And how will it end?
What is the essence of life?
And how did human life originate?
What and how is the human
mind?
Is there anything that
exists as an individual person's own self?
And what is the meaning of
the human beings' existence?
What presented in this article
is a logical system of such conjectures, which is based on such an ancient
believe: All what exist arise from and end in one thing; all what exist are
composed of and also compose the same thing. This thing was called as Tao
by the ancient Chinese philosopher Lao-tzu, as Apeiron by the ancient
Greek philosopher Anaximander, as Dharma by Gautama Siddhartha, the
Indian Buddha, as Noumenon by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, as Absolute
by the German philosopher Hegel, is more commonly called as Thing-in-itself
nowadays... and will be called as Reex in this article.
All the descriptions,
explanations and predictions about the basic appearances of the Reex are
organised into 12 conjectures that are scattered in the next 4 chapters. First,
we will focus on the basic appearances of the Reex whole in chapter two.
The 4 conjectures presented in this chapter explain the identical essence of
matter, energy, space and time, infer how our universe began, how it will end,
and what are the states before its beginning and after its end, and suggest
that gravitational field and space might be the same thing . In the rest 3
chapters we will focus on the appearances of special Reex individuals.
The 3 conjectures presented in chapter three explain what the essence of life
is, define two kinds of lives with contrary natures, describe the principles of
their evolution, and explain from where all the non-living matter in our
universe came, and suggest how the lives on the earth originated. The conjecture
in chapter four present the concept of the ultimate basic organisation of life,
of which the bodies of all organisms, including the human bodies and minds, are
made, and by which different lives are produced, maintained and evolved. The 4
conjectures in chapter five show the general organisation of the human mind and
it activities, explain the phenomena such as consciousness, memory,
intelligence and thinking, and define the intact existence of individual human
self.
The theoretical framework of this
article is composed of not only the concepts that represent all observed and
observable phenomena but also the concepts that represent all unobservable
phenomena and concepts that do not represent any phenomenon. All the four kinds
of concepts together make this theoretical framework different fundamentally
from either conjecture in common sense or scientific theories based on limited
phenomena. The significance of those four sorts of concepts is not within each
of them but among them.
There are a lot of things that are considered by us as existence. And the whole of all
existing everything is called as the
universe.
Scientists say, the universe
began at a time point so called as Big Bang and has already undergone an evolution
of about 10,000 millions of years. Now the universe, at its most macroscopic
level, is an immense space containing thousands of millions of moving galaxy
clusters, their magnetic and gravitational fields, and the 2.73°K cosmic
microwave background radiation. Each cluster is an aggregate of thousands of
galaxies. And each galaxy is in turn composed of millions of asters. More than
one thousand million asters and large amounts of interstellar gas and dust
consist of our Milky Way Galaxy. Among them, there is the sun, 1,392,000
kilometres in diameter and 330,000 times of the earth in mass. It travels with
a speed of about 200 kilometres per second, orbiting the centre of the Milky
Way Galaxy in a period of approximately 200 million years. The light released
by the sun, only one part in 2,200,000,000 intercepted by the earth, is the
most important energy resource for the organisms on the earth. The earth,
orbiting together with other planets around the sun once a year, is a planet
with a total surface area 509,600,000 square kilometres and a total mass of
6x1024 kilograms. There are 8 millions of species living in a thin
layer where the earth's solid, liquid and gas meet each other. Among them there
are us, the human beings with intelligent minds. Each one of the non-living and
living things that compose the earth is a huge organisation of different atoms.
Different atoms have different nuclei that are made up of different numbers of
protons and neutrons. Each proton or neutron is in turn a combination of quarks,
which contain many levels of sub-units made up by even tinier waves and
particles.
However, the first
conjecture of this article assumes that all the things described in the
picture above are nothing intrinsic to existence itself but only intermediate
products in the course where human mind and its environment change into each
other. Such intermediate products may be called consciousness, memory or
behaviour.
The first, all the phenomena
that we know by senses are such intermediate products, no matter whether we
sense them directly by our sensory organs or indirectly with the assistance of
observation devices; Second, all what we feel about our bodies, all our
subjective feelings and emotions are such intermediate products; And third, all
our ideas are such intermediate products, including all the scientific
concepts, such as length, dimension, motion, mass, energy, matter, time, space,
force, wave, particle, entropy, black hole or superstrings, and all the
scientific theories, such as Newton's laws of motion, Darwin's evolution,
Einstein's relativity, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, the quantum
mechanics, the game theory or the chaos theory, and all the mathematical
concepts and theories, and so on; Finally, all languages and behaviours are also
such intermediate products. Therefore, whatever we may know by consciousness,
memory or behaviours is only the interrelation between mind and its environment
but neither only the mind itself nor only the environment itself. In other
words, if there was no human mind or its environment, if there were no
interrelations between them, none of the 3 sorts of intermediate products might
exist.
All scientific law or theories
are based on certain phenomena that, in turn, are based on the existence of
both human mind and its environment. Therefore, all the truth in scientific
knowledge are relative truth, existing only in the special time and space of
the connections between human minds and their environment, Not only scientific
knowledge, but also all the rest of our knowledge are always compounds of mind
and its environment, and is never anything of pure mind or pure its
environment. There is no such things like pure knowledge, nature law or
universal rules, there is only human knowledge and human universal laws
existing relatively to the existence of human minds and its environment. For
example, if there were no human beings, there will be no mathematics, no things
like 1+1=2. And the human knowledge is not the only knowledge in existence.
Coexisting with human knowledge, there are also many other kinds of knowledge
relative to the minds of other organisms and their environments. And there is
not essential difference between human knowledge and the other knowledge. So as
the results of human behaviours, for example, there will be no those particles
found by physicists from their accelerators if there were no minds of
physicists and their environment. Those particles have been the creatures of
both the physicists’ behaviours and the environment where their behaviours
work.
The first conjecture has a twin
brother, the second conjecture. The second conjecture assumes that there
is an absolute existence, the Reex, which is different in 3 aspects from any
consciousness, memory and behaviour. The differences are:
1. The Reex is the one and
the only existence. Though consciousness, memory and behaviours may appear,
disappear or change, the Reex itself can not be created or destroyed, can not
be gained or lost, and can not be changed by itself or by anything else.
2. The Reex does not stay as it
is. It is in a state of eternal motion and autonomic change. Though the
Reex itself may or may not appear as consciousness, memory or behaviours, all
consciousness, memory and behaviours are merely the mental appearances of its
motion and its gathering or dispersing caused by its motion.
3. Though consciousness, memory
and behaviours are various and different to each other, all the Reex are always
the same and of absolute self-identity.
FOUR
STATES OF THE REEX
It is assumed by the third
conjecture that there are 4 states in one of which the Reex whole has to
be. Since the differences of those states exist only relatively to our minds,
therefore, I will describe them with the relevant phenomena they may appear as
in a human mind, though actually it is not possible for any human mind to sense
all the 4 Reex’ states.
One of the 4 states appears as
all the phenomena of one extreme, and another one all the phenomena of the
opposite extreme. The Reex in either of the two extreme states are called the
pure Reex and the phenomena they appear as are called the pure phenomena.
The rest two states appear as all the phenomena intermediate between the pure
phenomena of the two extremes. The Reex in either of the two intermediate states
is called the dual Reex, and their appearances are called the dual
phenomena. The difference of the two dual Reex is that one of them is
changing towards the state of one extreme, and the another towards the state of
the opposite extreme. And their appearances change correspondingly.
All phenomena that may exist
are the appearances of the Reex in one of the four states. No Reex in one of
the four states may appear as the same as those in other three states. Though
to different extent and in different degree, all the Reex in the same state
appear as the same phenomena.
The Reex may appear as
different phenomena but itself does not have the differences of the phenomena
it appears as. For instance, there is no difference between the Reex that
appear as the phenomena that may be summed up with the paired scientific
concepts such as matter and energy, macrostate and microstate, continuity and
discontinuity, homogeneity and heterogeneity, symmetry and asymmetry, etc. The
differences between those pairs of phenomenon groups only reflect the
differences and relations between the motion and the density of the observed
portion of Reex and the motion and the density of the mind of the observer.
1. Energy and Matter
If we know all the phenomena
that the Reex in all the 4 states may appear as and if we sum them all up with
the concepts of energy and matter, then one of the pure Reex may be called the
pure energy and the opposite pure Reex may be called the pure matter.
The phenomena of the pure energy are what the Reex appears as when all the Reex
gather within each other and go together in a one-way motion along one path of
straight line, and the phenomena of the pure matter is the phenomena that the
Reex appear as when all the Reex disperse from each other and each goes in a
reciprocating motion along extremely large numbers of paths of straight line.
The pure Reex is identical with
the whole of pure Reex, and the pure matter is identical with the whole of pure
matter. However, both dual Reex may be described as an individual or as a whole
consisted of enormous Reex individuals.
All dual Reex individuals run in one one-way motion and a few
reciprocating motions at the same time, and appear as both energy and matter at
the same time, but the appearances of one of the two dual Reex are changing
from more like pure energy to more like pure matter, and the opposite are
changing to opposite direction. All the dual Reex vary in density, but none of
them has the density of pure energy or pure matter. All the dual Reex have more
than one path, but never as many as the pure matter or as few as the pure
energy.
Although every dual Reex
appears as both matter and energy at the same time, there always are
differences among them. When compared, one of two dual Reex individuals may
appear more like pure matter or pure energy than the another. We may call one
dual Reex individual as dual matter and the another as dual energy
when comparing them with each other. However, no dual matter may ever appear
exactly as the pure matter, and no dual energy may ever appear exactly as the
pure energy. We will call one dual Reex individual as a dual energy if
comparing with another it appears faster, hotter, thicker in density, more
changing, more microscopic, more unified, more synchronous, more symmetric,
more evenly and equally distributed and having less space but more time. And we
will call one dual Reex individual as a dual matter if comparing with another
it appears slower, colder, thinner in density, less changing, more macroscopic,
more different, more asynchronous, more asymmetric, less evenly and equally
distributed and having more space but less time.
2. Microstate and Macrostate
We may also sum up all the
phenomena that Reex may appear as with the concepts macrostate and microstate.
Then the pure macrostate is what the pure matter appears and the pure
microstate is what the pure energy appears. However, the Reex itself does not
have the differences of macrostate or microstate. The Reex whole may exist
within any space no matter how small it may be, or may fill up any space no
matter how large it may be. Not like the pure Reex, the dual Reex always
appears as both macrostate and microstate at the same time. Though there are
always phenomena of both macrostate and microstate in a whole of the dual Reex,
certain phenomena of macrostate are only accompanied by certain microstate and
both change correspondingly. The universe where we are now living, for
instance, is such a whole of dual Reex in which its microstate is decreasing
and its macrostate is increasing. In a universe that there are both macrostate
and microstate, we are allowed neither to use the microstate to explain the
macrostate nor the opposite, because there is no cause-and-effect relation
between them. They are only co-existences. For example, we are not allowed to
say that the cells are more essential than the body or that the particles are
more fundamental than the whole of the universe. And we should not believe that
we could find the phenomena in our universe, based on which we might unify the
general relativity and quantum mechanics.
3. Time and Space
And we may also sum up all the phenomena of pure energy and pure
microstate as pure time and all those of pure matter and pure macrostate
as pure space. Wherever there is no Reex, there is no time and space as
well. All the phenomena of time reflect Reex's motion along one-way path and
all the phenomena of space reflect Reex's motion along reciprocating paths.
Therefore, the time can be measured as the speed of Reex's one-way motion and
its density, and space can be measured as numbers of the reciprocating paths of
Reex's motion and their lengths. Dual Reex individual that runs along one
reciprocating path may appear as a one-dimension object, called as a Reex
string, and that along two or three reciprocating paths at the same time
may appear as a two or three-dimension object, called as a Reex plane or
a Reex body. All the reciprocating paths that one dual Reex individual
runs along at the same time, may be called as the dual Reex individual’s Reex
field. A photon, for instance, might be such a Reex plane that has one
one-way path and one Reex field consisted of two reciprocating paths
perpendicular to each other. The one-way path produces the photon's appearances
of energy, and the Reex field produce the photon's appearances of matter.
There is the time but no space
in the whole of pure energy, called as absolute time, and there is the
space but no time in the whole of pure matter, called as absolute space.
There are both time and space in the whole or individuals of dual Reex, but not
so much time as that in the whole of pure energy and not so much space as that
in the whole of pure matter. In comparison with each other, one dual Reex
individual may be called as a dual time and the other a dual space.
When a Reex individual contains more and more energy, it has more and more time
and less and less space.
There still are many other
pairs of concepts that may replace and fulfil the roles of the above-mentioned
4 pairs of concepts in summing up all the appearances of Reex. This implies
that energy, microstate, continuity, homogeneity and so on are one same thing,
and matter, macrostate, discontinuity, heterogeneity and so on are another same
thing. The essential identification among all the concepts in each of the two
opposite groups may be called as the law of group identification.
4. Gravity
According to the law of group
identification, since the gravitational field is the matter phenomena of dual
Reex and is the appearance of its reciprocating paths, therefore, gravitational
field and Reex field are the same thing. Furthermore, because the phenomenon of
space are also the appearance of the reciprocating paths, therefore,
gravitational field and space are also the same thing.
As the gravitational field, the
fields of the strong nuclear force, the weak nuclear force and the
electromagnetic force are also Reex fields, though they are different from each
other in their Reex’s density, reciprocating path’s number and form; the fields
of the strong nuclear force, the weak nuclear force and the electromagnetic
force are also spaces, but are spaces with higher Reex density, with more
complex structures, with more reciprocating paths, and are spaces more like the
pure matter.
Reex field is the basis for the
relationship among dual Reex individuals. When two Reex field run into each
other, the parts of their reciprocating motions towards to each other appear
more and more like energy, and the parts of their reciprocating motions in the
opposite direction will appear more and more like matter. That is how the
accelerating energy is produced in gravitational field.
The change in which two Reex
fields fuse into one Reex field of higher Reex density and produce energy at
the same time may be called as Reex field fusion; the opposite change
may be called as Reex field fission. The nuclear fusion is such a Reex
field fusion.
The number of reciprocating paths that a Reex individual has will
increase when it loses energy and will decrease when it gains energy. For
instance, a Reex individual may change from appearing as non-superconductor to
appearing as superconductor when it loses energy and gains more reciprocating
paths; a photon may be released when it gains more energy and loses one
reciprocating path. Its change of gaining energy is continuous but losing
reciprocating paths is discontinuous.
Since the reciprocating paths are also the gravitational field,
therefore, a Reex individual will have more gravitational mass when it contains
less energy but less gravitational mass when it contains more energy. For
instance, the earth’s gravitational mass might be less when it is at its
perihelion than at its aphelion. That is why the earth orbits the sun in an
elliptic path.
Because of this principle, we
can express the concept of mass in Newton’s law of gravity and in Einstein’s
equation E=Mc2 more accurately as the mass in equation (1), where
the RM is the mass that a Reex individual possesses, n is the quantity of its
reciprocating paths, s is the speed of its one-way motion, and m is the mass
defined by Newton’s law of gravity or Einstein’s equation.
Equation (1) RM = (n/s)m
From this equation, we can understand why photon and high-energy
particles have little gravitational mass, and why our universe has not become a
black hole even though it began from a state of extremely high density. This
equation tells that the changes of gravitational mass caused by the changes of
energy will appear as a taped line; and it also tells that a Reex individual
may have different gravitational mass at the same time. For instance, the
earth’s gravitational mass to the moon might be less than to the sun.
There is no space or
gravitational field in the Reex whole of pure energy, since there is no matter
in it. There are spaces and gravitational fields in both wholes of dual Reex,
but the phenomena of spaces and gravitational fields increase in one of them
and decrease in another. There is extremely strong gravitational field and
extremely large space in the Reex whole of pure matter, but no energy, no time,
no life, no atoms and no asters in it.
ONE
CYCLE OF THE REEX WHOLE
It is the fourth conjecture
that assumes the Reex whole must change into each of its four states in turn
but must not remain in any of them for ever and must not be in two or more of
the states at the same time. Therefore, the existence of the Reex whole must
appear as a cycle of constant changing among the four states. The appearance of
the cycle is, therefore, composed of one point of pure energy, one point of
pure matter and two periods of dual phenomena with opposite directions. Let us
call such a cycle of the Reex whole as the year cycle, and call its pure
matter point as the winter universe (The U. Winter), its pure energy
point as the summer universe (The U. Summer), the intermediate
period changing towards the pure energy point as the spring universe
(The U. Spring), and the another as the autumn universe (The U.
Autumn). The direction of the year cycle's evolution is from the U. Spring,
through the U. Summer and then the U. Autumn, to the U. Winter, and finally
returns to the U. Spring again.
During the period of the U.
Spring, the Reex whole gathers gradually and repeatedly, and has fewer and
fewer reciprocating paths, fewer and fewer appearances of matter and space, but
more and more appearances of energy and time. Accordingly, the universe becomes
smaller and smaller, hotter and hotter, more and more unified and equal.
Different from a collapse, the U. Spring is a course of gradually and
repeatedly consuming dual matter and producing dual energy. At the point of the U. Summer, all the Reex
gathers into one one-way path and therefore appears as pure energy. Light,
gravity, space as well as all other dual phenomena disappear since there is no
reciprocating path existing at the point. During the period of the U. Autumn,
the Reex whole disperses gradually and repeatedly. Reciprocating paths reappear
and increase and the universe changes from an existence of one dimension into
multidimensional world, and gets bigger and bigger, colder and colder, more and
more different and unequal. Accordingly its time becomes less and faster.
Different from an explosion, the U. Autumn is a course of gradually and
repeatedly consuming dual energy and producing dual matter. At the point of the
U. Winter, all the one-way paths disappear, the Reex whole disperses into the
pure matter with extremely large number of reciprocating paths. Attracted by
the extremely strong gravity of the pure matter, the Reex whole gathers up and
enters the U. Spring again.
There are many sub-year-cycles
in either the U. Spring or the U. Autumn. Each sub-year-cycle is composed of S.
Spring, S Summer, S Autumn and S Winter. The
differences between the sub-year-cycles and the year cycle are:The S.
Summer in a sub-year-cycle is composed of dual energy, not pure energy, and the
S. Winter is composed of dual matter, not pure matter. Both of the S. Summer
and S. Winter become more and more like pure energy in the U. Spring but more
and more like pure matter in the U. Autumn. In different sub-year-cycles there
are S. Autumns with different initial states, different courses and different
lives in them. Not in all of the S. Autumns may the human beings arise and
exist. Through the gradually and repeatedly grinding of the sub cycles, the
pure energy is digested by the U. Autumn and the pure matter is digested by the
U. Spring.
Since the year cycle is a
continuous process without beginning or end, therefore, any theories that are
based on a universe with a beginning and an end, whether it is a common sense
or a religious bible or a scientific law, reflect only one part of the year
cycle but not the whole of it.
Since human beings exist only
in one of the four universes, and exist only in one period and one location of
this universe, therefore, it is for sure that all the phenomena we have already
known are far less than one fourth of all the phenomena that may exist, and it
is also possible that we might never know more than the one fourth
limitation.
The phenomena found in one of
the four universes may never be found in other three. There is no phenomenon of
matter in the U. Summer and no phenomenon of energy in the U. Winter. There are
no phenomena of pure Reex in either the U. Spring or U. Autumn. Though there
are dual phenomenon in both U. Spring and U. Autumn, but their initial states
and directions of changes are opposite to each other. For instance, the
phenomena of atom appear before the phenomena of aster in the U. Autumn but
after in the U. Spring. Because of those differences, all scientific concepts,
theories and laws based on certain phenomena existing and being tenable in one
universe may not be applicable to other universes. The better a scientific law
can explain and predict the phenomena within one universe, the more absurd
outcome it may lead to when it is applied to explain and predict the phenomena
that may appear at the point of the universe’s beginning and end, or even
beyond its beginning and end. And scientific concepts, theories and laws based
on phenomena existing in one location of a universe may not always be tenable
in other location of the same universe. There is no general scientific law in
the year cycle.
Since scientists found that atomic nuclei had appeared far before human
beings came into being, therefore, we do not only live in a whole of dual Reex
but also in an U. Autumn. Though the U. Autumn is a natural development of the
U. Summer, nothing exists in the U. Autumn has existed in the U. Summer. At the
starting point of our U. Autumn, there was nothing existing like atoms, asters,
plants, animals or human beings. All of them have been created by the
development of the U. Autumn and all of them have been the component parts of
the development. The creative change happened in this development are called as
life. Though life does not exist everywhere in our universe, it
certainly does not occur only in biological bodies like living plants and
animals either.
Life is the appearances of the
Reex. However,
not all but only the dual Reex may appear as life, and not all but only some of
the dual Reex that are in the following 3 states appear as life. The Reex in
these 3 states are called the pure life, the spring life and
the autumn life. These 3 kinds of lives are the
fifth conjecture of this article.
The pure life is the dynamic
equilibrium state in which a dual energy continuously changes into a relevant
dual matter and simultaneously the dual matter continuously changes back to the
relevant dual energy, and all the changes lead to neither increase nor decrease
of the total amount of the matter and energy in the environment where the
changes occur. The year cycle may be regarded as a pure life existing in time,
and the pure life may be regarded as a year cycle existing in a local space.
The second law of thermodynamics is not applicable to any system in which there
is a life, a sub-year-cycle or the year cycle, because it only reflects the
direction of the U. Autumn.
Because all the dual Reex must become more and more like either
the pure energy or the pure matter, therefore, the life must also change
towards either direction. The life that becomes more and more like the pure
matter, the same direction of the U. Autumn, is called the autumn life; and the
life that becomes more and more like the pure energy, the same direction of the
U. Spring, is called the spring life. There
is no life in either U. Summer or U. Winter because there is no dual Reex in
them. There are both spring life and autumn life in both U. Spring and U.
Autumn. However, U. Spring is predominated by the spring live and U. Autumn by
the autumn life.
Their directions determine that
the spring life consumes matter and produces energy and the autumn life consumes
energy and produces matter. For instance, in comparison, the lives that produce
the solar energy are spring lives, and the lives that compose the plants or the
animals that live directly or indirectly on the solar energy are autumn lives.
Among all portions of the
energy that participate in the changes of an individual life, the portion of
energy that is changing from energy into matter is called the energy
component of life, and the rest portions of the energy is called the
direct energy environment of life. Among all portions of the matter that
participate in the changes of an individual life, the portion of matter that is
changing from matter into energy is called the matter component of life,
and the rest portions of the matter is called the direct matter environment
of life. The portions of energy and matter participating in the changes of
an individual life become either its components or direct environment at
random.
All the rest of the dual Reex
that coexist with an individual life but are neither its component nor its
direct environment are called the indirect environment of the life. The
indirect environment contains innumerable local indirect environments of
the life. For one individual life, there may be a large number of local indirect
environments but only one indirect environment.
There may be many identical or
different lives existing in one indirect environment. Shared local indirect
environments may connect the direct environments of different lives together,
through which different lives may exchange matter and energy with each other.
Those exchanges do not lead to any change in the total amount of the matter and
energy in the indirect environment, but do lead to the formation of
interrelation among the lives in it. And such interrelations among different
lives appear as relation, form, structures and processes of the indirect
environment.
All the changes of the U.
Spring and the U. Autumn may be divided further into 2 groups, called the
energy change of life and the matter change of life. The energy
changes of life are the changes in the quantity of the matter and the energy
that compose the direct environment, and the consequential changes in the
components of life. The matter changes of life are the changes in the form of
the matter and energy that compose the direct environment of the life, and the
consequential changes in the relations of matter and energy exchanges among
individual lives in the indirect environment. The results of the energy changes
of life are the occurrence and disappearance of lives in the indirect
environment of life, and the results of the matter changes of life are the
occurrence and disappearance of relations, forms, structures and processes in
the indirect environment of life.
The energy change of life may
lead to the disappearance of either matter components or energy components of a
life, both of which are considered as the death of the life. If the
change is towards the direction of the U. Spring, there will be more and more
energy and/or less and less matter in the direct environment of a life, less
and less its energy components change into its matter components, and more and
more its matter components change into its energy components, until all its
matter components disappear. The state in which a life loses all its matter
components is called the heat death of the life. If the change is
towards the direction of the U. Autumn, there will be less and less energy in
the direct environment of a life, less and less the energy components of the
life change into its matter components, and less and less its matter components
change into energy components, until all its energy components disappear. The
state in which a life loses all its energy components is called the cold
death of the life.
The remained matter components
of a life after its cold death are called frozon or frozons. An
adult human body is composed of about 1027 of atomic nuclei and the
electrons around them. All of the atomic nuclei are such frozons. Whenever
producing a frozon, an autumn life also produces some energy at the same time,
which may be called as postnatal energy. The postnatal energy is lower
in its Reex density than the energy component of the autumn life that produces
it and the frozon.
According to the direction of the U. Autumn, all the frozons
produced by previous lives are the indirect matter environment of lives that
follow; and all the postnatal energy is their direct energy environment. And
also according to the direction of the U. Autumn, the earlier the frozons was
produced in the course of the U. Autumn or the higher the Reex density of the
direct energy environment of the life that produces the frozons, the less
different among those frozons, even though no frozon is identical to another.
The matter changes of life do
not directly lead to any death of lives but lead to the changes in matter and
energy exchange relations among all the lives in the indirect environment. Such
changes may cause the death of a pair of relevant lives at the same time, one
of which is the heat death and the another the cold death, called together as the
organisation death. Whenever the matter changes of life cause the
disappearance of lives, it will cause the occurrence of another lives at the
same time, and cause consequent changes in the relations, forms, structures and
processes in the indirect environment. The organisation death happens all the
time in the evolution of species and the development of individual organisms.
To the U. Autumn itself, the 3
kinds of death are more important than the occurrence of lives. Without them,
the U. Autumn would not develop further; without them, no atom, aster, plant,
animal or human being might come into being. In the light of this reason, we
should respect death, at least, as much as we love life.
No life may escape from the
death caused by the energy changes, but all lives may continually exist as long
as the results of their matter changes in favour with their existence.
Therefore, the results of the progress of the year cycle are not always the
occurrence and disappearance of lives, may also be the changes in their forms.
The forms of life will become more and more complex as the U. Autumn
progresses, but simpler and simpler as the U. Spring progresses. For instance,
the core temperature of human body is about 30°C warmer than the average
temperature of the seawater, which reflects the difference between the energy
environment where the human lives occurred in the past and that where we are
living now. The complex forms of human body are the favoured matter changes
that keep the human lives from any energy change even though our energy
environment has already cooled down enormously.
The occurrence and
disappearance of individual lives in an indirect environment cause the
occurrence and disappearance of relations of matter and energy exchange among
different lives. The processes in which new and existing individual lives
rebuild their relations and integrate with each other in an indirect
environment are called the reorganisation of the indirect environment.
Reorganisation is the changes that obey Darwin’s theory of evolution.
The reorganisation of any
indirect environment will lead to two contrary results, called the
integration and the specification. The integration means that the
individual lives in the indirect environment are becoming more and more like
each other and have simpler relations, which makes the indirect environment
appear more like energy. And the specification means that the individual lives
are becoming more and more different from each other and have more complex
relations, which makes the indirect environment appear more like matter. For
instance, a fertilised human egg is an indirect environment high in integration
but low in specification in comparison with the adult human body. The
development from the former to the latter is a process of reorganisation in
which new specification and new integration are continuously produced, while
mean time each of them continuously conceals the other. An adult human body is
always the best compromise of its integration and specification in view of its
relation with the human society. Since all organisms are lives changing towards
the direction of the U. Autumn, the specification will gradually become
predominating over the integration during both the development of any
individual biological body and the evolution of any species.
The organisation of any
indirect environment where the autumn lives predominate will become more and
more complex as time goes on and where the spring lives predominate will get
more and more simplified. A human body is such a local indirect environment in
which the autumn lives predominate over the spring lives.
Though there are both the
energy changes and the matter changes of life in the U. Autumn, the energy
changes are getting less, slower and weaker, whereas the matter changes are
getting more, faster and stronger. And it is just the inverse in the U. Spring.
Both the energy changes and the
matter changes can be further divided into 2 groups of different changes,
called the determined change of life and the random change of life.
The determined changes are the matter or energy changes of life that follow the
direction of the year cycle, and the random changes are the matter or energy
changes of life that follow the direction of pure life. All the changes of life
are both determined change and random change at the same time. And both
determined and random changes will equally lead to the reorganisation of the
indirect environment of life.
LIVES FROM DIFFERENT PERIODS OF THE U. AUTUMN
The U. Autumn where we exist
rose from the pure energy state of a U. Summer about 15 to 20 thousand million
years ago, and will fall to the pure matter state of a U. Winter probably 1026
years later. Changing from the pure energy to the pure matter, the U. Autumn
itself is a long course composed of extreme large number of intermediate states
of the dual Reex. Everything that was, is and will exist originates from one of
the states, is itself one of the states and will change into one of the states.
Through the changes in the U.
Autumn, the Reex whole is getting lower in density, less evenly and equally
distributed, more paths and more reciprocating paths in its movement. Its
appearances are becoming more like matter, more macroscopic, more structures
and processes, colder, more various, more asynchronous and asymmetric, faster
in time, and so on. This is the direction of the U. Autumn.
This direction of the U. Autumn
determines that there are fundamental differences among the lives occurred at
different periods of the course of the U. Autumn. According to their
differences, it may be considered as that there are 3 different kinds of autumn
lives existing in the U. Autumn. The earliest one, which begins to occur at the
beginning of the U. Autumn, is called the life of high energy. The
latest one, which begins to occur at the end of the U. Autumn, is called the
life of high matter. And the one in between, which begins to occur in the
middle of the U. Autumn, is called the life of high organisation. Those
3 kinds of autumn lives are the sixth conjecture.
The most typical life of high
energy has one shared direct environment among many components of life but does
not have the indirect environment. Its energy components are the energy almost
like the pure energy, and its matter components are the most microscopic matter
with extremely high Reex density. Just like what the lives of plants and
animals are doing today, the lives of high energy were metabolising energy and
matter, reproducing themselves, sensing and responding to the changes in their
environment about 20 thousand million years ago.
The earlier a life occurs in
the course of the U. Autumn, the higher Reex density its energy component will
be, the shorter the life will exist, and the more frozons it will produce, the
heavier and smaller its frozons will be. The very first babies borne by live of
high energy may be some extremely microscopic Reex strings with extremely high
Reex density. Though those Reex strings occupy little space of our universe,
they possess more than 90% of all the Reex; and all the other things, all the
atoms, all the plants, animals and humans, and most of the asters, possess the
rest less than 10% of the Reex. As the universe cooled down those U. Autumn’s
firstborn babies grew up from Reex strings to dual Reex with lots of
reciprocating paths, and possess extremely high gravitational mass. They exist
at the centres of clusters and galaxies and are the dark matter scientists are
looking for.
The most typical lives of high
organisation have both direct and indirect environments. The Reex density of
its components is neither so high as that of the lives of high energy nor so
low as that of the lives of high matter. We can still find the approximately
differences between the energy environment of the lives of high energy and that
of the lives of high organisation by fissioning their frozons. For instance,
all the biological lives are the lives of high organisation. Their matter
components are chemical bonds and their energy components are the energy that
produces those chemical bonds. The chemical bonds can be split with the energy
of a few electron volts that is approximately similar to the energy that
composes the direct energy environment of the biological lives. Nowadays, with
the energy of more than 100 thousand million electron volts, physicists can
produce a direct energy environment of 1014 degrees Kelvin,
approximately similar to the environment at the 10-12 second after
the beginning of our universe. The Reex density of this energy environment is
still very much lower than the one at exact point of the beginning of the U.
Autumn. Such a great difference shows how cold our environment is for the lives
of high energy. Therefore, many of the things that we call non-living matter
are actually the matter components of the lives of high energy deeply frozen by
the temperature of our environment. The earlier a frozon was produced in the
past, the deeper it is frozen at present and the more it appears as matter. The
lives that occur in non-biological bodies and biological bodies are essentially
the same. Their differences are made only by their relation to the U. Autumn,
that is, lives have been active in non-biological bodies before but are being
active in biological bodies now and here.
The lives of high organisation
are also different from the lives of high energy in the longevity of their
existence and variation of their forms. Generally speaking, the lower the Reex
density of the direct environments of a life is, the longer it exists, the more
forms it develops into. For instance, the lives that produced all the protons
and neutrons existed only in a period from the first microsecond to the first
second of the beginning of our universe. As a striking contrast, the lives that
produce all the plants and animals on the earth have already existed more than
4 thousand million years and are still active. Its long life gives the lives of
high organisation more chances of developing various forms.
The lives of high organisation are neither so unified as the lives
of high energy nor so complex as the lives of high matter, it is the
combination of both the lives of high energy and the lives of high matter. Creating
complex but unified indirect environment is the nature of the lives of high
organisation and is the inevitable outcome of their developments in the U.
Autumn. Such unified complexity is not an evidence for the existence of a
creator or God.
As the U. Autumn progresses
further and further, all the direct environments of lives will become smaller
and smaller and the existence of lives will become more and more dependent on
the matter and energy exchanges among different lives in the indirect
environment. The matter and energy that an autumn life gains may come from
either a spring life, such as that plants from the sun, or from another autumn
life different in forms, such as that carnivores from herbivores and herbivores
from plants. The more complex an organism is, the more its existence depends on
the matter and energy exchanges.
The most typical lives of high
matter have indirect environment of life but do not have the direct environment
of life. Its energy components are the energy almost at the absolute zero of
thermodynamics, and its matter components are the matter almost like the pure
matter. It may not yet exist in our universe.
It is possible that the
universe found by scientists is still a S. Autumn in a sub cycle. If it is so,
there must be dual Reex and lives existed before its beginning.
The lives of plants, animals,
including human beings occur in the bodies that are composed of nucleic acids,
proteins, sugar molecules and fatty acids. Such bodies are called biological
bodies or organisms, and the lives that occur in the biological bodies are
called biological lives and all the biological lives are the lives of
high organisation. As any other kinds of lives, the biological life has its own
position in the year cycle. Biological life can occur neither in the U. Summer
because there exists no matter, nor in the U. Winter because there exists no
energy. And the energy and the matter that compose the biological lives are not
the same as the energy in the U. Summer or the matter in the U. Winter. Biological
lives can not occur in the U. Spring too, because the direction of changes
there is just the invert of the U. Autumn's. In the U. Autumn, biological lives
occur much later than the occurrence of the nuclei produced by the lives of
high energy, but if the biological lives might occur in the U. Spring, they
have to occur much earlier than the occurrence of any nucleus because it is the
lives of high matter that occur at the beginning of the U. Spring and the lives
of high energy occur only at the end of it. Therefore, the biological lives are
the autumn lives that only occur in the U. Autumn, maybe only in its very early
stage.
As other lives, the origin of
autumn life is always the result of the occurrence of certain energy. The
energy that caused the origins of the biological lives on the earth came first
from the forming course of the solar system, especially the earth. The
formation of the solar system began about 5 thousand million years ago as a lot
of cosmic dust was gathering into many centres. Ninety nine per cent of the
dust forms the sun and rest of it forms the other 9 planets. As more and more
matter of the dust gathers together, part of them at the centre of each centres
change into various forms of energy. This energy first led to the rise of the
activities of the spring lives in those planets. Their different mass
determined that different solar planets underwent different activities of the
spring lives and got different products of the activities.
The activities of spring lives
gradually fell off as the increase of the mass of the planets gradually
stopped. As activities of spring lives decreased, the activities of autumn
lives occurred and increased in those planets. The autumn lives consumed the
energy and created new forms of matter in the planets. The activities of the
spring lives ended, at least ended from their surfaces, long time ago in all
the solar planets except the sun. The activities of spring lives in the sun
provide the second source of energy that influences the activities of lives,
mainly the autumn lives, on other planets. Their different distances from the
sun determined that different solar planets had different patterns of autumn
lives, underwent different developmental course of the autumn lives, and have
different products of their autumn lives. Therefore, it is the earth's mass and
its distance to the sun that determine that all the plants, animals and the
human beings with intelligent minds may occur on the earth than any other
planets.
About 4.5 thousand million
years ago, the earth began to cool down. During its cooling course, various
autumn lives occurred, then died and left masses of new molecules as their
frozons. The first generation of lives concerning the large biological
molecules, called as biological lives of earth energy, occurred at a
temperature point of the course where the environmental conditions made it easy
for the carbon atoms to form or break bonds among themselves or with other
atoms. The matter components of the biological lives of earth energy were
different DNA molecules. They were living DNA molecules, reproducing themselves
fast in large quantity and great variation and living in large but localised
environments instead of in cells. As the results of their activities, a sea of
primary DNA molecules of all the possible permutation and combination were
left, long before any cell, any protein or any RNA came into being. All the
chromosomes now found in all the cells of all the plants and animals are
actually good or bad copies of the primary DNA molecules. The biological lives
of earth energy and their environment may be called as DNA world.
As the energy environment
gradually became lower and lower, the second generation of biological lives
rose on the base of the ready-made chromosomes. There are two different sorts
of them, called the biological lives of solar energy and the
biological lives of biochemical energy. The former take the energy from the
sunlight as their energy components, the latter the energy released by
biochemical reaction. They both have various RNAs, proteins, sugar molecules
and fatty acids as their matter components.
Both the biological lives do
not create new primary DNA molecules, but their developments along the
direction of the U. Autumn did create all the other large biological molecules,
individual combination of primary DNA or chromosomes, cells and multicellular
organisms. Species rose from the primary DNA molecules might be 20 million
times more than those found nowadays but most of them have already been eliminated
by natural selection. Nowadays, all the living microorganisms, plants, animals
and human beings are descendants of the two lives. Human beings rose from one
species of the lives of biochemical energy even though the lives of modern
human beings depend upon complex sources of energy.
In comparison, the two
biological lives today are exactly the same as they were at their very
beginning. They have the same energy and matter components. Their activities
still have to be based on certain replications of the primary DNA molecules.
The only difference is that the indirect environments of life in which the
early biological lives were maintained were much simple than those for modern
biological lives, because the direction of the U. Autumn decides that there
will be less and less energy appearances but more and more matter appearances
in the indirect environments. The more and more complex indirect environments
are the only things that the evolution of the biological lives have created
over more than 4 thousand million years and are still creating now. And now
their most creative fields have already moved from large biological molecules,
cells, and individual organisms to biological societies.
There have been changes
happened to the replications of the primary DNA molecules. However, there might
be no direct cause-and-effect linkage between the origin of a new species and
the changes happened in its precursor's chromosomes. As the matter indirect
local environment, the chromosomes have only decided what the creative power of
the biological lives might not do but not what they should do, nor how and when
they do them. It might be predicted that if planting only human chromosomes
into a plant’s cell, a normal human baby could not be brought out at the end of
its development. Species might continuously evolve without any gene changes
until they reach the limitation of their chromosomes. For example, human beings
might have lived as aquatic animals, amphibians and terrestrial animals during
the evolution but might have all the time carried the same or almost the same
chromosomes as we have today! Changes in chromosomes and in indirect
environments have been human being’s two legs when we walked on our way of
evolution and natural selection.
What we described above,
biological lives on the earth originated from a DNA world, is the seventh
conjecture of this article.
Though they might not occur in
every U. Autumn, plants, animals and human beings may always come into being
from the same environment and the same course. If we can find another
environment as same as the solar system and the earth, we will always find the
same plants, animals and human beings there just as those have been found on
the earth. And the human beings we may find from another earth will have the
similar heads and the similar bodies as we have. Generally speaking, we will
find the future of ourselves from another older earth and the past of ourselves
from another younger earth.
Unlike the lives of high energy or high matter, all the lives of high
organisation depend on the organisation of the indirect environment for their
occurrence, existence and development. It is the eighth conjecture that
assumes that all the indirect environment of the lives of high organisation,
such as a cell, a plant, an animal or a society, is composed of many basic
units called as IMB systems that are fundamentally identical with each
other.
This IMB system is not the
cell, otherwise the lives of high organisation might not exist before the
occurrence of the first cell, may not exist below or above the level of cell,
or occur in non-biological bodies.
This IMB system is composed of
3 parts, two of which are parts of the local indirect environment of an
individual life of high organisation and the rest one part is composed of the
components and the direct environments of the life. Through one of the first
two parts, dual energy or dual matter moves from local indirect environment
towards the direct environments of the life, called the input part of
the IMB system ; through another, dual energy or dual matter moves from the
direct environments towards the local indirect environment, called the
output part of the IMB system . And the direct environment and the
components of the life are together called the reaction part of the IMB
system. Local indirect environments that are neither the input part nor the
output part but connect directly or indirectly with either the input part or
the output part of an IMB system are together called its environment. An
IMB system is the most basic unit based up which an individual life of high
organisation may occur, exist and undergo the continuous reorganisation. All
the bodies of micro-organisms, plants and animals are composed of the IMB
systems.
The input part connects an IMB
system with the part of its environment as the sources of the matter and energy
it inputs, and the output part connects an IMB system to the part of its
environment as the outlets for the matter and energy it outputs. The reaction
part of an IMB system connects both the input part and the output part, and it
functions as a reactor where matter and energy interact with each other.
An IMB system contains either
an individual spring life that consumes matter to produce energy or an
individual autumn life that consumes energy to produce matter. The changes both
from matter to energy and from energy to matter are called the life change.
There are two other changes happening in every IMB system, which are called the
transform change and the transfer change. The transform change is
the change in the form of a portion of matter or energy in an IMB system, and
the transfer change is the change in the location of a portion of matter or
energy in an IMB system. Neither the transform changes nor the transfer changes
produce matter or energy. The changes happen in the input part and the output
part of an IMB system are mainly the transform changes, and in the reaction
part are mainly the life changes. And the transfer changes happen in all the
three parts. The activities of the mind can not be explained only with the
activities of the nerve impulses and neurotransmitters, because the nerve
impulse moving through a nerve or the neurotransmitter moving through a synapse
is only transfer change, and the nerve impulse changes into neurotransmitter or
vice versa is only the transform change.
Dual matter and dual energy may
get into an IMB system only through its input part and may get out of an IMB
system only through its output part. The input and out put of dual Reex by the
two parts are highly selective, depending on the parts’ properties, their
working state and which environment they connect with.
No matter what a IMB system
composes or is composed of, the dual matter or the dual energy input from its
environment into the system may be called as information, those output
out of the system may be called as behaviour, and, in comparison, the
dual matter or the dual energy existing in the system before the information is
input or after the behaviour is output may be called as memory.
Though all the information, the
memory and the behaviour are dual Reex, the dual Reex of the memory never
appear as the same as the dual Reex of the information or the behaviour. The
memory may appear more like dual energy in an IMB system, and then the
information and the behaviour must appear more like dual matter. The relation
among them is called as the MEM relation. The memory may appear more
like dual matter in an IMB system, and then the information and the behaviour
must appear more like dual energy. The relation among them is called as the
EME relation. The life in an IMB system with the EME relation is autumn
life and with the MEM relation is spring life.
The information and the
behaviour of the same IMB system are essentially more like each other. The only
difference is that their moving directions, relative to the system itself, are
opposite to each other. The information moves from the environment to the
system and the behaviour moves from the system to its environment. Both of them
lead to life changes. The life changes caused by the information happen in the
reaction part of an IMB system, whereas the life changes caused by the
behaviour happen in other IMB systems in its environment.
However, the information that
an IMB system inputs is never the behaviour it outputs. Information, after it
enters the reaction part, will become a part of one of the two direct
environments in the reaction part, which is opposite to the direct environment
composed by memory. For instance, if the memory composes the direct matter
environment in an IMB system with E-M-E relation, the information will become
part of its direct energy environment, whereas, when the memory composes the
direct energy environment in an IMB system with M-E-M relation, the information
will become a part of its direct matter environment. The behaviour is the
products of the life in the direct environments.
A living organism is nerve
equal to an IMB system, because one living organism is always composed of more
than one IMB systems and not all the parts of all the IMB systems that compose
an organism exist within the body of the organism. Among all the IMB systems
that compose one organism, some of them have all the three parts within the
body of the organism, but some others may have only two or one or even less
part within it and have the rest parts in the environment of the organism.
Therefore, an IMB system may not only exist within an organism but may also
exist within a group of organisms or within a whole of organisms. One IMB
system’ s parts at one time may become parts of another IMB systems at another
time. One certain part of one IMB system may become any part of another IMB
systems. And the parts of one IMB system at one time may become parts that do
not belong to any IMB system at another time.
The IMB systems that exist
completely within an organism produce the organism's individual behaviours and
the IMB systems that exist only partly within an organism produce the
organism's group behaviours or the behaviours of a whole. Since it is composed
of many different IMB systems, every organism will simultaneously behave as an
individual, as a member of groups and as a part of a whole. For instance, an
adult human body is composed of about 1.815 cells. Each of the cells
is composed of many IMB systems, some of which exist completely within one cell
and produce the cell's individual behaviours, some of which exist in a group of
cells and produce their group behaviours, and some of which exist in all the
cells of the body and produce the behaviours of the whole body.
The human mind is also the IMB
systems. The mind is composed of the IMB systems and is itself an IMB system.
In basic organisation and principle, there is no fundamental difference between
the IMB systems that compose the human mind and those that compose the rest
parts of the human body or bodies of any other organisms. What the human mind
is different from any other IMB systems is its position in the structure and
process of the U. Autumn. Relative to the U. Autumn, the human mind is the
product of other IMB systems and also produces other IMB systems. The existence
of the human mind depends on the matter and energy exchanges with other IMB
system, and it is also depended for the existence of other IMB systems. No
matter what wonderful things the human mind have created or will create, we
should still be aware that it is the lives before the human lives created the
atoms, the asters, the plants and animals on the earth, and the human beings
and human minds themselves.
There are much more IMB systems
than cells in a human body. Most of the IMB systems produce individual
behaviours, some produce group behaviours and fewer produce the behaviours of
whole body. However, not all but only some of those behaviours may be called as
the human behaviours. The human behaviours are only the behaviours in which all
the cells of a human body behave as a whole relative to the human body's
environment and only the behaviours that are produced by the IMB systems that
compose the human mind. Still not all the behaviours produced by the IMB
systems that compose the human mind may be called the human behaviours, some of
which may be called the plant behaviours, some may be called the
animal behaviours, only those related with other individual human beings,
the human society and the whole human beings may be called the human
behaviours. All the IMB systems that produce the three sorts of behaviours
are together called the self of an individual human being or a human self
for short.
Still, not all the three sorts
of behaviours mean the same to the existence of the human self. For instance,
the cells in the body of patient in vegetable state will continuously produce
individual behaviours, group behaviours, some behaviours of whole body and
maybe even some mind's plant behaviours and animal behaviours, it is only the
human behaviours that they can not produce, which makes the human body live but
no longer live as a human being. Therefore, a human being can be defined as the
unification of a living human body and the human behaviours.
However, it is still wrong to
deduce that every other organism may have a mind as the mind that the human
being has, because not all organisms have nerve cells, brains or highly
developed cerebral cortices, all of which are the very basis of the human mind.
The organisation of the human mind will be discussed in the next chapter.
ORGANISATION
OF THE MIND
A human mind is a part of a living human body. The main part of the
human mind exists in the nervous system, including the brain, the spinal cord,
the ganglia and the nerves, and the rest of it exists in other part of the
body, including sense organs, motor organs and inner organs.
The mind is only a part of the
nervous system and also a part of other organs. As any other part of the human
body or any other part of the human nervous system, the human mind exists as a
course with a beginning and an end. During this course, the organisation of the
mind become from non-existing to existing, then from more to less; from simple
to complex, then from more complex to simpler. The organisation of the mind
described below exists around the middle of the course.
FIGURE
(1) ORGANISATION OF THE HUMAN MIND
The
areas between the peripheral circle and the central circle are the hereditary
parts of the mind. The areas within the central circle are the acquired parts
of the mind. The areas outside the peripheral circle are the parts of the mind
located inside the body but outside the nervous system. Area 1, 2 and 3 are the
intermediate brains. Area 4 is the OM. Area 5 is SM. Area 6 is MM. Area 0 is
the CM. Area 7, 8 and 9 are the IM. The solid blue stripes are where the
consciousness is produced.
As shown in Figure (1), the
organisation of human mind is composed of 6 parts, called the sense brain
(SB), the organ brain (OB), the motor brain (MB) and the 3
intermediate brains. The sense brain has more direct connections with
the sense organs that compose the surface of the human body. The motor brain
has more direct connections with the skeletal muscles. And the organ brain has
more direct connections with internal organs. The exchanges of information and
behaviour between the organ brain and internal organs are transferred through
both the autonomic nervous system and the circulatory body fluid. The
intermediate brains that have more direct connections with the sense brain, the
organ brain and the motor brain.
Each of the brains is composed
of two parts, called the hereditary part and the acquired part.
The acquired parts are newer than the hereditary parts in evolution and
individual development. Each hereditary part is composed of two subparts,
called the peripheral area, connected with the organs, and the
central area, connected with the acquired part. Each acquired part is also
composed of two subparts, one of which is owned by each the brain, called as the
peripheral memory or called individually as the memory of the sense brain
(SM), the memory of the organ brain (OM), the memory of the motor brain (MM)
and the intermediate memory (IM). And another subpart of the acquired part is
shared by sense brain, organ brain and motor brain, called the central
memory (CM). The CM is the core part of the mind. Reex that moves towards
the CM is entering the mind and otherwise is leaving the mind. This
organisation of the human mind is the ninth conjecture.
ACTIVITIES
WITHIN THE HUMAN MIND
To the contrary of many people's believe, the human mind itself is not a
transcendent information processor, memory user or behaviour producer, but is
only those information, memory and behaviour themselves. The human mind is a
local indirect environment of life, the only things that exist in which are
information, memory, behaviour and their intermediate and transitional
products. Their life changes, transform changes, transfer changes and their
interaction appear as all the psychological phenomena such as consciousness,
intelligence, thinking, etc. This is the tenth conjecture.
The energy of information that
a mind gains from sense organs or from other external sources may trigger the
production of consciousness but themselves may never appears as consciousness
in the mind. Relative to the dual matter of memory, the consciousness is a dual
energy produced by the spring lives in the mind. Whenever consciousness occurs
in a mind, the mind is not gaining or feeling the energy but is only producing
it. Consciousness is produced in the hereditary parts of each brain. The
consciousness produced in the S brain is called the CS (the
consciousness of the S brain), in the O brain the CO, and in the M
brain the CM. The CS is the consciousness what we see, hear, sense by
touch, smell, taste and so on. The CO is the consciousness of the emotion,
desire and internal feelings. And the CM is what the mind recollects or creates
in the forms of language, symbol, image, sound, etc. Each of the CS, the CO and
the CM is produced in a special area in its relevant brain. Please refer FIGURE
5.1. for the locations. After being produced, the consciousness will flow
further to the acquired parts of the brains and undergo life changes together
with memory there.
The energy of consciousness is
not the whole mind but only a component part of it, which is produced by the other
parts of the mind that do not present as consciousness. The consciousness alone
does not sense, does not remember or recollect, does not think, does not feel
or will, does not move the limbs and trunk, does not speak or smile, and does
not drive or rule the mind.
Besides the energy of
consciousness, there are many other kinds of energy produced in the mind. One
of them is called the energy of waking. Just like the human body can
only work at certain range of body temperature, the energy of waking is equally
and widely produced in the mind as an internal energy environment for the
activities of the mind in its waking state. What makes the difference between
the waking state and the sleep state of the mind is only whether the energy of
waking is produced or not. The control information for producing the energy of
waking is input from the non-mind part of brain. Relatively, the mind is
predominated by the spring lives when in its waking state and therefore
produces more consciousness and behaviour, but is predominated by the autumn
lives when in its sleep state and therefore produces more memory.
Relative to either the energy
of consciousness or the energy of waking, the memory appears as dual matter. As
dual matter, the memory appears as the structures of the mind. All the
structures of the mind are its memory. There are two different kinds of memory,
called the hereditary memory and the acquired memory. Though more
hereditary memories are formed before the time point of the birth and more
acquired memories are formed after, the time point of the birth does not
distinguish the difference of them. The hereditary memory is the structures
formed as the result of the interaction among the lives in the same body, and
the acquired memory is the structures formed as the result of the interaction
among the lives in the same body environment. The hereditary memory composes
the hereditary part of the mind and the acquired memory composes the acquired
part of the mind. The hereditary memory is more like the U. Autumn and the
acquired memory is more like the pure life.
The memories are either the
matter components or the direct matter environment of the lives in the indirect
environment of mind. The various energies such as the consciousness, the waking
and many others are either the energy components or the direct energy
environment of the lives. The spring lives in the mind consume memory and
produce the dual energy of consciousness, behaviour or others. The autumn lives
in the mind consume the consciousness and produce the dual matter of memory.
Both the spring lives and the autumn lives undergo the energy change and the
matter change, which lead further the reorganisation of the mind. The
principles of the activities of the mind are the principles of the indirect environment
of life.
The relations among the lives
in the indirect environment of the S brain simulate the world outside the human
body and are together called the internal world (inW). The
relations among the lives in the indirect environment of the O brain simulate
the human body and are together called the internal self (inS).
The relations among the lives in the indirect environment of the M brain
simulate the activities of the body in the world and are together called the
internal behaviour (inB). And the relations among the lives in the
intermediate brains simulate the relations among the inW, the inS and the inB,
and are together called the internal relation (inR). Since all
the brains are composed of the hereditary parts and the acquired parts, there
are both the hereditary and the acquired relations in each of the inW, the inS,
the inB and the inR. Therefore, all the consciousness and behaviour are
determined by both of them. Those inW, inS, inB and inR act and interact with
each other autonomously according to the relations that they simulate. And the
consciousness, produced according to the information from sense organs, joins
their activities and makes the activities also initiated, directed, adjusted
and constrained by rest of the body and body’s environment.
All the relations in the inW,
the inS, the inB and the inR may be divided into the structure relation called S
knot and the process relation called P knot. Both of the knots are
organisations of more-few relation. Because the more-few relation, the P knot
enable a person's mind to know a course without the limitation of the time at
which his body exists and the S knot enable a person's mind to know a structure
without the limitation of the space where his body is located. Both knots may
further be divided into hereditary knots and acquired knots.
Both intelligence and instinct
reflect the mind's abilities of producing, maintaining, organising and using
memory. The intelligence is the appearance of the mind's activities associating
with the acquired memory, which relatively appear more like the changes of the
pure life. And the instinct is the appearance of the activities associating
with the hereditary memory, which relatively appear more like the changes of
the U. Autumn.
Mainly, the movement of the
dual energy in the mind is orientated from sense organs to the peripheral area
in the hereditary part of the S brain, from the central area in the hereditary
part of the S brain to its relevant peripheral memory, from the peripheral
memory of the S brain, through central memory, to the peripheral memory of the
O brain or the M brain, from the peripheral memory of the O brain or the M
brain to central area of the hereditary part of the O brain or the M brain,
from the peripheral area of the hereditary part of the O brain or the M brain
either output as behaviour or input again as consciousness.
The central memory is an area
of multi-direction, more like life than any other areas of memory. The
organisation of the central memory and the energy in it is called the
thought. The thought exists as a whole. There is only one thought in one
mind.
The behaviour or consciousness
produced by the O brain is called the language of the O brain (the O
language), and that by the M brain is called the language of the M brain
(the M language). The language of the brains output from the hereditary
part of the O brain or the M brain can be either consciousness or behaviour but
can never be both of them at the same time.
The thought is never the
consciousness or the behaviour. The O language and the M language are
descriptions and translations of the thought but not the thought itself.
Usually the languages of the brains can only describe and translate once a
fraction of the entire thought. In communication with other persons, the O
language may be used alone to express one's thought, but the M language is
usually used together with the O language.
The input of the consciousness
selectively increases the energy in the indirect environment of the mind and
further increases the activities of the spring lives in the mind. The output of
the behaviour selectively decreases the energy in the mind and further
increases the activities of the autumn lives in the mind. Therefore, the output
can influence the mind as well as the input.
Thought is different in its
form from the languages that express it. Though the human mind has much more
ways to express its thought, no thought may be expressed thoroughly and
exactly. When it can not be expressed with proper forms, ways and
opportunities, the thought will interact with the O brain and the M brain,
which may lead to the reorganisation of their indirect environments. Such
reorganisation of mind may produce either some creation or certain
psychological illness.
Thinking is the circulation in which the energy product output
from the hereditary part of the O brain or the M brain is input back to the
acquired parts and reprocessed by the mind. The whole process of the feedback
and reprocessing is called the ruminant process. The ruminant process is
an important way of communication among the three brains. Not only the
consciousness but also the behaviour is the way through which the ruminant
process may be carried out, the former is called the internal ruminant
process and the latter the external ruminant process.
What I said above has been all about the parts of the human self
that are located in one human body. And in the final chapter, we will discuss
how the rest parts of an individual human self exist.
At the centre of our living, feeling, thinking, judging and behaving,
there are something called as SELF. However, this self is only a consciousness
created by the O brain, and is, therefore, only a part of a human self, not the
whole of it. The eleventh conjecture says: a complete human self is
composed of 3 parts, called as the body, the mind and the soul.
An individual human self is
composed of many different IMB systems, some of which have some of their parts
in the non-mind part of the body and rest of their parts in the mind and
produce plant behaviours, called as plant system; some of which have all
their parts in the mind and produce animal behaviours, called as animal
system; and some of which have some of their parts in the mind and rest of
their parts in the body's environment and produce human behaviours, called as human
system. The human self exists neither entirely in an individual mind, nor
entirely in an individual human body.
The parts of an individual
human self in the body's environment are called the unified parts, the
parts in the body's non-mind part are called the scattered parts, and
the parts in the mind the related parts. The difference is that the
scattered parts of an individual human self can not be the parts of other human
selves at the same time but the unified parts can. Many human selves in the
same environment can share same unified parts. The unified parts unify many
human selves as a whole.
A human self does not always
have all the three component parts during its whole existence. At the very
beginning when a human being is still one fertilised egg, none of the parts of
the human self exists. During the human body's development, the scattered parts
of the human self begin to form first, then the related parts, the latest the
unified parts. A human self with three component parts exists only during part
time of its whole existence. After this period, the scattered parts begin to
disappear first, then the related parts. The unified parts of a human self may
exist much long than the other two sorts of parts. Its disappearance is not
caused only by the disappearance of the body. Therefore, we may say that a
human self does not exist completely as the human body exists and does not die
completely as the body dies.
Since The unified parts of a
human self may enable a living human body to appears as a human being, may
exist outside a human body and still be a part of its mind, may exist even the
body no longer exists, and may become a part of other human self, it may,
therefore, be called as the soul of the human self.
Still, the unified parts of the
human selves are not immortal but exist also as a course. The whole of the
unified parts of the human selves will become more and more like matter if its
indirect environment changes towards the direction of the U. Autumn, or become
more and more like energy if its indirect environment changes against the
direction.
No matter whatever human beings
have created and will create, we are still a part of the U. Autumn and we do
only what the U. Autumn has to do. Therefore, the meaning of the human
existence, the moral criterions for human behaviours, the orientation of
scientific, economic and social developments may never be found within
ourselves but can be found from our relation with the year cycle, especially
with the U. Autumn.
This is the twelfth
conjecture and the end of this article.
Reference:
1. Bertrand Russell: History Of Western Philosophy, George Allen and
Unwin Ltd, London, 1946
2. Stephen W. Hawking: A Brief History Of Time, Banam Books, New York,
1988
3. John Boslough: Beyond The Black Hole, Collins, 1985
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