Chapter 47 The Evolution of Human Civilization (6) The Evolutionary Path from "Subconscious" to "Conscious".
The transformation of the "great subconscious" into "consciousness" is most exemplified in medicine and life sciences.
We breathe and beat every second, eat, sleep, and vent every day, and humans are amazed at how sophisticated and ingenious our body structure is, and even though we use our bodies every day, we don't know anything about the principles and designs.
Until the emergence of language and writing in human society, relying on the accumulation of knowledge from generation to generation, it has developed into a more advanced world.
For human beings, even with the advances in the life sciences, even though we can rely on the biotechnology that we can replicate today, we know very little about our own psychology, consciousness and subconscious.
The greatest mystery of human beings is their ignorance of themselves, and we can dissect the human brain to understand what it is made of and how it is made up and function.
But if I don't express my thoughts to you now, even if you dissect me, open my brain, and study inch by inch, will you still be able to find "what I think" from a pile of matter?
To put it simply, if my body is the hardware of a computer, and you open the hardware of the computer and study it, you will not be able to know what software is used when the computer is running, and what software is pre-installed when the computer leaves the factory, which is the crux of the problem.
That is, human beings are preloaded with souls before they are born. Mencius once said that human nature is "lust-eating", but in fact, he pointed out that human survival instinct, that is, the survival drive guided by the "great subconscious".
"Food" means "eating", that is, in order to survive, human beings need to absorb the nutrients of other living beings and rely on them to survive.
And "color" is "sex", that is, the motivation for human beings to mate in order to continue life.
"Eating" is a kind of enjoyment, because our body structure makes us feel happy in the process of "eating", and when the body needs nutrients, our body will send out "alarm signs", that is, the feeling of "hunger", which drives us to find something to eat, and this "hunger" feeling is very painful and intense, driving us to act immediately and use all means to find food, which is the key to our survival.
And "sex" is also a kind of enjoyment, "sexual intercourse" produces pleasure, which is also our body structure makes us satisfied in "sexual intercourse", but if we do not "eat" food, human beings will die.
The absence of "sex" does not endanger the survival of the individual human being, and furthermore, the result of "sexual intercourse" has a long-term impact on the life of the individual human being, because through "sex" new life is born.
The birth of a new life is necessary for the "star", but it is a loss for the human individual, because in raising this new life, it can become a burden for the individual, and for the woman, her burden is heavier, because it is she who gives birth to a new life, and this new life must be nurtured by her as soon as it is born.
Since "sex" is a loss-making business for individual human life, it is of course best not to have "sexual intercourse" in order for individual human life to live more comfortably and without burden.
However, when designing our body structure, the "stars" have set up an incentive mechanism in the DNA, and the "sexual intercourse" between a man and a woman can make both parties feel extremely satisfied and happy, and human beings are fascinated by "sex" in order to get this feeling of satisfaction and pleasure.
The development of human society stems from the above-mentioned existential drive of "eating" (eating) and "sexuality".
Now let's talk about how the existential drive of "sexuality" shapes our human social system and how it promotes the evolution of human civilization.
Primitive human beings' understanding of "sexuality" was based on the "great subconscious" to carry out sexual acts, and they did not know that "sex" and "reproduction" had any relationship, and the "social structure" at that time had not yet produced a race, and human beings were like animals, living separately, when human beings were driven by "instinct", they would go out to find the opposite sex to have "sexual intercourse", feel the pleasure of that moment, and then leave and live separately, and when women give birth due to "sexual intercourse", the newborn baby will live and grow up with the mother, When they grow up, they will leave their mothers and find a space to survive on their own.
If you have ever watched a documentary of wild animals, you will find that the earliest human "social structure" was like that of a wild lion.
When human beings are looking for more food and ensuring their own safety, human beings come together, help each other, and cooperate with each other, so that human beings can reproduce in the natural environment, and individuals produce language in order to better cooperate with each other, thus promoting the exchange of survival experience between individuals.
After communicating with each other, it turns out that he has the same similar, or even the same experience, as other individuals, and the most obvious thing is the relationship between "sex" and "procreation".
When human beings first "became conscious" of the survival drive of "sex" in the "great subconscious", and "named" this survival drive as "sex", it means that human beings have found the experience of survival from the "subconscious" and transformed this survival experience into "consciousness".
What are the benefits of this kind of "conscious" enlightenment to human beings? This is the beginning of the human social system.