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The Roots of Behavior in Contemporary Physics
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10619 |
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NATURAL SCIENCE
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2 / 1986 |
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Jean E. Charon
Jean E. Charon is Director, Group of Research on Imaginary in
Physics, French Scientific National Research Center, CRI,
Paris, France. |
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 meaning that our Mind conveys to the product of our sensations. Forms are, consequently, what appears "at first sight" when our senses consider the outer world--our own body included. And as we just noted, Forms generate in our Mind the memorization, and later the interpretation, of these Forms.
Now the question is this: We said that memorization and meaning are operations that take place in our Mind, where "data" related to Forms are recorded and associated together in such a way that sensations become perceptions, or, we may say, Forms become memorized as significant entities. Although we are still pretty ignorant of what exactly are these entities, we shall make the convention to call Symbols these mysterious, memorized entities associated with Forms, which render these
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