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The Roots of Behavior in Contemporary Physics |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / SCIENCE AND SPIRIT |
| Author: Jean E. Charon |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1986 |
| Size: 4,535 Words, 27,295 Characters |
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Forms/Symbols, Free-Will and The Human Behavior
Forms and Symbols constitute the roots of human behavior. But no behavior could grow out of these roots without the help of "free-will." Let us first explain what we mean with such an affirmation, and start with the precise meanings of the words Forms and Symbols.
Forms and Symbols
We call "Forms" the primitive images that our senses detect when we look at the outer world. They are these images in their primordial aspect, that is, even before they are memorized by our Mind; and, even more, before this Mind has given some significance to the considered Form. Philosophers generally make the distinction between sensation, which is the simple interaction of our senses with the outside world, and perception, which is the meani...
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...t this person regains his sense of vision.
So, Forms/symbols are "relative" to the state of spin (consciousness) of the observer's sigma field; the world is not an "absolute" but is strictly dependent on the mental structure interpreting the sensations collected by the Living Organism. The study of the relations between Forms and Symbols finally leads to a great lesson of tolerance. vbcrlf
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