Chapter 48: Human Nature (4)

1. The evolution of human language function is a major breakthrough in the accumulation of knowledge and the creation of a civilized society

This book does not discuss much about the common nature of human beings, but only makes an in-depth discussion of the social nature of human beings. The need for human social evolution www.biquge.info came very early, and probably there was a need for human socialization and development.

The group consciousness of early humans was not much different from the group consciousness of chimpanzees that we see today, and should be closer to chimpanzees. Scientists have found that humans and chimpanzees are 98.77% genetically similar, indicating that chimpanzees are the closest to humans. Observing the needs of chimpanzee social evolution can understand the early human evolutionary process, which can provide a realistic blueprint for the study of human sociality.

Scientists believe that the ancestors of human beings and the ancestors of chimpanzees separated about 500~6 million years ago and embarked on an independent evolutionary path, the former gave rise to us, and the latter is the chimpanzees we see today in western and central Africa.

Chimpanzees have stronger memory skills, and studies have shown that chimpanzees have more memory than humans in some ways. However, chimpanzees' excellent intuitive memory is gradually lost with age, and young chimpanzees outperform older chimpanzees. Tetsuro Matsuzawa, a professor at Kyoto University in Japan, said: "This ability should arise from the need to recognize friend or foe at a glance in nature or to ripe fruit." Humans may evolve to develop other abilities, such as language, and slowly lose them over time. ”

There are also such manifestations in human beings, and the difference between human memory and thinking can be seen from the psychological tendencies of adolescents in the arts and sciences. This is evident in the tendency of liberal arts and science courses, and usually, people with strong memory are more inclined to study liberal arts classes, and the level of liberal arts is higher than that of science courses. A person with strong comprehension is more inclined to apply and learn comprehension ability, and the ability to take science exams is significantly higher than that of a person with strong memory.

From the perspective of numerology, you will find that all people with strong memory have a strong distribution of the official killing star and the two wealth stars, and the performance of human behavior obviously shows diligence, patience, strong sense of responsibility, strong obedience, weak numerical ability, but strong financial management ability and so on. A person with strong comprehension and thinking ability focuses on laziness, slowness, lack of patience, timidity, strong numerical ability, but weak financial management ability, strong subordination, weak sense of responsibility and so on.

As we age, this difference will gradually disappear, however, in women the strength of memory is more obvious than that of men, and in thinking ability men are more obvious than women, especially in organizational leadership ability, men's differences are significantly greater than women's, and women are born with super social subordination, organized, and in this regard, men show stronger self-nature than women.

In a sense, humans are very similar to chimpanzees in terms of sociality. Chimpanzees are socially bound by sex, and usually a group is attached to a patriarch, but females also hunt alone from male chimpanzees, just like humans. Chimpanzees are emotionally active, grieving the death of a relative, and other members of the group offer condolences to the deceased. Chimpanzees have the same thinking and mental activities as humans, as well as psychological manifestations such as pleasure, disappointment, fear, and frustration.

However, "on January 19, 1996, American scientists discovered that chimpanzees also laugh when they are itchy, and breathe while laughing, which sounds like the sound of a chainsaw starting, while human breathing temporarily stops when talking or laughing, because people can control the parts of the diaphragm and muscles related to vocalizations well." Scientists believe that the key to being able to speak lies in the nervous system's control of airflow, and that the ability of humans to speak is to break through this limitation, while chimpanzees do not have this ability, which unravels the mystery of chimpanzees' inability to speak. (from Baidu).

This study shows that the evolutionary division between humans and animals lies in the production and use of human language, and the reason why humans have jumped to the ranks of intelligent higher animals is that humans have perfect language expression skills, while other animals do not. And the perfect language expression ability of human beings far surpasses that of chimpanzees, which are only 1.5% different from human genes, all thanks to the breakthrough evolution of human language ability, it is precisely because of the rich language expression ability of human beings that human beings have the ability to efficiently transmit information, so that human beings have an important human foundation in the process of accumulating knowledge and creating a civilized society.

"From the evolution of the social life of insects, an example closer to our topic can be given. During the Mesozoic Era, about 150 million years ago, primitive hornets evolved haplodiploids that were decisive for other species. This characteristic dictates that fertilized eggs produce females and unfertilized eggs produce males, and this simple method of control may be a special adaptation that allows female wasps to select the sex of their offspring based on the nature of the insect prey. In particular, smaller prey can be given to male offspring because male offspring need less protein for development. But, whatever the initial cause, the monolattic diploidy indicates an evolutionary event that predetermined, quite accidentally, a tendency of these insects to develop a higher form of social life. Haplodiploidy leads to a closer sisterhood than mother-daughter relationship, so females may have a genetic interest through transformation into sterile colonies, and their explicit duty is to nurture sisters. The sterile female bee that feeds her sister is an essential feature of the social organization of this insect. Because of this determining role of haplodiploidy, it is only in insects such as wasps and their close relatives bees and ants that a social lifestyle has developed, and it is generally matriarchy, i.e. the queen bee manages the female offspring, or sisterhood, i.e. the sterile female bee manages the egg-laying female. Wasps, bees and ants appear to have been a huge success, setting up camp in most parts of the planet and having a significant impact on local ecology. In Brazilian forests, they account for 20 percent of the total weight of all terrestrial animals, including worms, toucans and jaguars. It's hard to imagine anyone who could guess all this with knowledge of haplodiploidy. E.O. Wilson, On Human Nature

This passage by E.O. Wilson shows that the social evolution of insects directly affects the physiological process of insects and determines the survival and continuation of insects. It can also be seen from this that although the sociality of chimpanzees is linked by sex, the sociality of chimpanzees also alludes to many characteristics of human sociality.

In the social activities of the chimpanzee group, the female chimpanzee is not a completely loyal unit individual, nor is it a unit individual that completely depends on the male leader for subsistence, but a self-aware unit individual, and at the same time a unit individual that does not live apart from the whole group, which provides the most primitive human reference in animal nature to human nature. Humans will also satisfy the primitive instinct of social mammals that want to possess more of the opposite sex by finding lovers and buying and selling sexual functions. It shows that human nature begins with the indivisibility and extinction of the remains of animal nature.

Before man got rid of his animal nature, the essence of the animal was no different from that of the animal. The essence of human beings getting rid of animals is related to the progression of culture, and it has a great relationship with the sudden and accidental evolution of human language expression ability, all of which happened about 10,000 years ago, that is to say, the essence of human beings getting rid of animals is dependent on the leap of human wisdom and synchronous progression. To put it simply, since the brain wisdom has leaped forward, human beings have been detached from the animal side with the progress of culture, marched towards the independent nature of human beings, and gradually formed an independent human personality, all of which come from the changes in the natural climate.

The suddenness and accidental evolution of human laryngeal joints have promoted the process of human socialization, constituted the physical framework structure of human civilization progress, provided the most basic and useful tools for human communication between human beings, and naturally provided opportunities for human civilization to communicate, reserve and create cultural products, that is to say, if there is no leap in human language function, there will be no synchronous leap in human wisdom, and there will be no human beings today, and human beings are no different from chimpanzees.

However, due to the influence of the natural environment, the leap of brain wisdom is also bound to be limited by the natural geographical environment, and there is a differentiation of different races, in layman's terms, the natural geographical environment determines the cultural progress of human beings, and the environment in which human beings live determines the generation, formation, development and progression of ideology and culture, and the environment solidifies the specific mode of regional culture and forms the stubborn characteristics of regional culture, so as to constitute different forms of ideology and culture to affect the development of social civilization of people in different regions.

Second, there are differences in the co-development of human sociality, culture, and animal nature

For the views or theories on the common nature of human sociality and class nature, there are theories such as the theory of sexual goodness, the theory of sexual evil, the theory of sexual goodness and evil, and the theory of sexual non-good and evil in ancient Chinese science, but as far as the common nature of human beings is concerned, that is, there is no sexual goodness, no sexual evil, and more sexual good and evil, and only the group nature and differentiation that remain in the essence of human nature, also called the remains of sheep and wolf nature, theoretically speaking, it is social and class nature, harmony and struggle, and in modern terms, it is doves and hawks. In the final analysis, there are remnants of human nature, wolf nature and sheep nature.

Sheep are content with the status quo and lack the willingness to innovate and cooperate with the group, which is synonymous with kindness, weakness, hard work and perseverance. Sheep nature has its kind, friendly, harmonious, and honest side.

The wolf nature has the spirit of greed, tenacity, wisdom, cleverness, courage, freedom, innovation and group cooperation and unity, and it is precisely because of these qualities that the wolf has become the totem of the grassland people.

Sheep and wolves live in different environments, and their food chains are different, so their natural self-will will will be different.

Sheep nature, docile, know how to get along with people, not greedy, not arrogant, easy to be friends, filial piety, kneel on the ground to drink milk, know filial piety. And be content with the status quo, accept the adversity, resign yourself to fate, and do not want to forge ahead.

And wolf, cunning, ferocious, and brave and good at fighting, fierce by nature, love to fight, etc.

The sheep society will only produce internal fighting, while the wolf society will be unanimously outward. This is also a strong proof that ancient China, which blindly emphasized harmony, "has no history in essence, it is just a repetition of the fall of the monarch." No progress can be made from it. "Because sheep society will only produce infighting, and subversion is just repeating history. If a nation only emphasizes the harmony of sheep nature, then the nation has already begun to walk on the precipice of enslavement, and it is only a matter of time before it is enslaved.

Modern research shows that the geographical environment has a certain influence on the generation and development of human thought, and has a guiding role in the creation and discovery of thought methods. From the perspective of historical civilization, there are obvious differences in cultural differences between river basins and coastal river basins, as well as grassland areas. At the same time, the research shows that there are obvious differences between the ethnic groups that have been vegetarian for a long time and those who have eaten meat for a long time, and there are huge differences in their personality characteristics. However, this kind of personality difference is not a natural formation of human nature, but is only attributed to the acquired product of human ideology and culture. That is to say, human nature is not affected by the natural environment, there is a certain natural nature of self-closure or natural disappearance, it can also be said that human beings, a great natural product, have unified all natural natures since its inception, but due to the difference in the environment, there are differences in the worldview in understanding the world, and there are differences in the color of the skin, that's all. And no matter how far or south the world is, as long as it is a person, the brain spectrum of people is the same, and there is no huge difference. In other words, God did not deliberately give preference to one child, but gave all people the same limbs and brains, and gave human beings a unified higher intelligence.

E.O. Wilson put it this way in On Human Nature: "Let me go further and point out that the greatest wealth that genetic diversity brings us is hope and pride, not despair. Because we humans are a single species, not two or more species. We are a great fertility system through which genes flow and mix through each generation. As a result of this flow, human beings have shared a common nature for generations. Within this natural sphere, it is important to understand the significance of biological unity that the more minor genetic influences circulate in changing forms between sexes, families, and entire groups. We can imagine how painful our spirits would be, what obligations we should have to them, and what would the theologians say if intelligence was somewhere between chimpanzees and humans, and if they were genetically separated forever, and if language and higher thinking were to evolve second only to man's Pleistocene Australopithecus, and what our obligations would be? Or should we try to make sure that they don't develop into more advanced species, or worse, if we coexist with superhumans who are more intelligent than humans, and who see humans as mere secondary congeners. And when we are faced with the moral problem of how to deal with us, what kind of predicament will we find ourselves in?

That is to say, the human mind is not a pure tabula rasa, on which experience can draw the most complex pictures with lines and dots, and more precisely, the human mind can be depicted as an autonomous decision-making machine and an alert environmental scanner. It first approaches certain types of choices over others, then inherently gravitates toward some choices over others, and drives the body to act according to a flexible schedule. It is according to this timeline that each individual automatically moves from infancy to old age. The accumulation and memory of past choices, the consideration of future choices, and the re-experience of the feelings that made those choices all constitute the spirit. The characteristics of a person's performance in the decision-making process are what distinguish him from others. However, the rules to be followed are strict, and there is a wide overlap in the decisions made by all people, and the resulting convergence is called human nature. From this passage, we should appreciate a spirit in which we should thank God for the Creator who, in creating us, gave us a unified human nature, and gave us a unified natural selection for human beings, and constituted a unified spiritual world, following uniform rules, and widely overlapping and unified personnel decisions.

Therefore, a nation can not blindly overemphasize the spirit of sheep, but should inject the strong and brave fresh blood of the wolf into the nation, the wolf, with blood to defend the dignity of survival, and the claws are consistent with the outside world, showing greed, tenacity, wisdom, cleverness, courage, freedom, innovation and group cooperation and unity spirit.

It is better to change yourself than to change others, because it is easier to change yourself than to change others.

The enslavement and oppression of the Chinese for thousands of years by the royal power is not that the Chinese are willing, but in a specific environment, the closed mind is caused, China is not without spiritual beliefs, but very eager to get the correct and full spiritual world, but why not get? The reason is that in the process of synchronous progression of human nature, there is a fundamental paradox in guiding thinking, so that the Chinese lack the existence of ideology in the ideological method, which in turn leads to the mechanical subordination of the Chinese to the regulation, and cannot produce self-consciousness and cannot see their own soul, which is the root of the problem.

Since ancient times, the Chinese, due to the constraints of the geographical environment, have overemphasized the meekness, kindness, weakness, hard work and resentment of sheep nature, submissiveness, resignation to fate, and even lack of progress, self-abandonment, self-depravity, and so on. For thousands of years, Chinese people are not without self, do not believe in gods, Chinese and Westerners are no different, only the color of the skin is different, in fact, the blood is the same red. Looking back at the course of history and culture, the Chinese not only have gods in their hearts, but also these gods are moral models of spiritual civilization and emperors and saints, but why do Chinese forget themselves? The crux of the problem is still the question of guiding thinking.

As early as the thirteenth century, when the Mongols trodden through Europe, the Chinese were also destroyed by foreign people for nearly three hundred years, but Westerners introspected their own cultural ideas from this period and finally found light in Greek culture, while the Chinese went further and further on the old road of Confucianism.

As far as the ideological civilization and intellectual ability of human beings are concerned, it is not that one group of people is necessarily superior to another, but it is just that due to the problem of ideological foundation, it is not possible to enlighten the eyes of those who walk down the lighthouse. When you can't see the lighthouse that is pointing in the right direction, you have to go along the lighthouse that is going in the wrong direction.

Modern scientific research has proved that the mind of a newborn baby is not a blank sheet of paper, and on the way to find the original memory, the brain has a spectrum of undulating bands of thought activity, and the wavelength of the spectrum is different from high bottom and depth. Therefore, the role of the ideological beacon is pivotal when accepting the guidance of the light of the ideas of his predecessors, which is directly related to his worldview.

The reality is that after the birth of our children, our parents put their energy and hope into their children, and turn them into tools for their own ideals. Children are like wolf cubs that have been pulled out and tried to raise, to sekly and docilely fulfill their parents' wishes. But parents have never thought about how such a child can survive in the vast grassland, how to become a brave and warlike wolf.