THE FOURTHWAY MANHO E-JOURNAL Volume 50 May 8, 2019 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
THE NERVO-REFLECTANT By Professor Dr. Tan Man-Ho (An excerpt from the original work, Real World Views, Book 2, by Professor Dr. Tan Man-Ho entitled, "Biocosmic Nervo-Reflectant and the Theory of Material Reflection in Man, Inner Development and Social Upheavals," July 1973 - September 1974 Discourses, Chapter 7, Section B: "The Nervo-Reflectant," pp. 182~199)
B. THE NERVO-REFLECTANT 1
On Lenin’s Reflection Theory Our 5 sense organs reflect the external phenomena,
include external forms of matter. The point is this, when one of the
sense organ ceases to function, say the ear, then all the sound aspect of
our material world cease to be reflected by the ear. But nevertheless,
this so-called sound expect of nature still exists. It does not therefore
means that this sound aspect of the external world, does not exist at all.
This does in fact show that there existed forms of matter independent of our
5 sense organs. Molecules for example exist independent of our 5 sense
organs. When all our 5 sense organs cease to work, all external
phenomena cease to be reflected into our “being”. The nervous system
is therefore a form of matter with psyche, the highest biological form of
matter, found in human beings all other animals and in plants. This
form of matter, that is, this highest form of matter, possesses this very
important property – it “glows” and reflects external phenomena like a
mirror, and it is a psyche matter. There is direct interactions between
this highest form of matter and the external objects …… that is sound,
light, heat, etc. must interact with this highest form of matter embedded in
only “living organism” – so far known to biological scientists. This highest form of matter undergoes changes in
forms, that is, it probably has development – real material development or
real motion. At a certain stage of its development, it ceases to function
and this is the stage when we called a man is dead. The highest form of
matter has reached the endpoint of its functions. It comes into existence and once it has
matured from the womb of the organic bodies it is negated. Immediately,
after this highest form of matter, let us called it nervo-reflectant, a
reflectant (simple mirror image) of the nervous system, is negated, the
other superstructure of the nervo-reflectants disintegrates. By
observation, that is, empirical observation shows, decaying of all these
superstructures of the nervo-reflectant – our bodies decay. 2
The Nervo–Reflectant in Organism The nervous system in all organisms has mirror
properties formed from a myriad of simple into complex mirrors. What the
nervo–reflectant is can be studied by the biologist. It is found in
the so-called nervous system of man with its huge network of neurons as
mirror or “simple images” and is also part of this system itself. This
nervo–reflectant possess the property of reflecting external phenomena
although it is incapable of reflecting all external phenomena, the neurons
there are doing the works of reflection like what the mirror does. The
neuronal system here in the body does mirror work of reflecting and
producing images of the outside world. 3
The Nervo–Reflectant and the
Superstructure of Nervo-Reflectant The nervo–reflectant has its history. From
the fusion of sperm and ovum therein, forming man plays a leading role in
“creation” of all the super structures of the nervo–reflectant. Until
at certain stage of this development of the nervo–reflectant, the
superstructure as can be observed is of the blastocyst form. This in
turn changes its form into embryos……then the superstructure is of the fetus
form and finally of the “adult form”. This “adult form” is the last
stage of development of the nervo–reflectant, their super structure only
undergoes minor quantitative changes. The followings are the
quantitative changes: i.
Weight of
small child and weight of adults and weight of old man. ii.
The
increase in size of head, limbs bodies, o.k. iii.
There is
no change of quality thereon. Conclusion: The development is dialectical.
This is an example and proof of the validity of dialectical behavior of the
development of the nervo-reflectant. 4
Forms of Nervo–Reflectant In the stage after the conception to the blastocyst
– the nervo–reflectant is in a definite form. The nervo–reflectant
undergoes quantitative changes. There is in this stage another form,
an antithetical form of nervo–reflectant, existing in this stage. This
new nervo–reflectant replaces the old nervo–reflectant. It brings
about new forms superstructures, the embryo form. Here too there is a
transition from blastocyst to embryo, quantitative changes takes place.
Then there is a transition from the embryo into the fetus and therein
further development. Let us called the stages of this development as: 1. For “needs” – blastocyst 2. For blastocyst to embryos and 3. From embryo to fetus. In 1, the nervo–reflectant has underdeveloped
reflection capability. In 2, the nervo–reflectant has different or
still not so develop form of reflection. In 3, the nervo–reflectant
has reached its highest developed form initially that is when the baby is
just born out, the nervo–reflectant in the child is “learning to stand up
form”. 5
The Point which Proves Decisive for the
Dialectical Gap is this: The child, immediately, been born, has exactly the
same reflection of the external phenomena been aged man you see a cat a
child also see a cat. From this stage the child’s nervo–reflectant
undergoes quantitative changes. The child, in one word, has to interact with
external phenomena …… his nervo–reflectant and his superstructure is one
piece – whereby the nervo–reflectant controls the superstructure. The
most develop form of the nervo–reflectant lies in the so-called head that is
the brain. This is the location one of the most complicated and
highest form of matter. All “voluntary” parts of the body are control
by it. The consciousness of man, the will of man and the conceptions of
thought capacities all come into existence at this final stage of the
quantitative changes of man in this “adult stage”. The
“nervo-reflectant” in other species has different forms of development
although the development is quite the same. 6
The Superstructures of Nervo-Reflectant in
Adult Form The superstructures constitute the various muscular
system, skeletal system, etc. these superstructure are protected by the
nervo-reflectant. Any damage in the superstructures will lead to the
agitation of the nervo-reflectant which in turn directs the “curing” of the
damage superstructures. The nervo-reflectant is both ontological and
not ontological-both god and not god; it is the highest form of biological
matter that is, it exist in one of the categories of material form.
The material form of it is very dull, still constitute polymer; but when it
is in motion or performance it is very “complicated”. No wonder any
decay in your body, the wound can often be healed, by the so-called internal
development. 7
Nervo-Reflectant and its Superstructures
are Interdependent When the superstructures are destroyed the
nervo-reflectant also gives way. This is the case when killing a man by
shooting etc. When the nervo-reflectant disappears or dies off as in
the case of the death of man due to old age, the superstructures also dies
off that is decays of. This so-called dying off of nervo-reflectant is
simply a transformation of the nervo-reflectant (material form) into so one
other form or performs other kinds of function or negated by a different
form. Quote:
Death is certainly the antithesis of
life. 8
Production and Reproduction of
Nervo-reflectant At a certain stage of the development of the
nervo-reflectant, that is, immediately after a child is born, the
nervo-reflectant has reached a stage where its future nervo-reflectant is
reproduced. This can be detected by the existence the sperms or and
therein also the existence of penis and virginal. I believe if the nature of this nervo-reflectant is
studied in great detail perhaps it is also possible to “direct” development
of this highest form of matter. 9
Nervo-Reflectant and the External world The nervo-reflectant of man specifically, not to
mention of other forms of animals and plants cannot possibly reflect all the
external phenomena. But what is reflected into a man, that is what all of us
can see, hear, feel, smell and taste are all seal external phenomena or in
one world they exists. So if you see a car you say it exist because
the car possess certain properties (light) to interact with the
nervo-reflectant cannot interact with all external phenomena, such as a
molecule striking our sense organ, but by many interactions with external
phenomena. There arises ideas, a function of the nervo-reflectant, the
possibly of the existence of molecules, more lunch interactions with this
so-called phenomena exhibited by nature which gives the idea of molecules,
that is carrying out more scientific experiment can lead to the conclusion
of the existence of molecules. Ideas are the highest form of the
nervo-reflectant and concentrates on the head. This is another way of
saying “only with very careful very quiet conditions that scientist can
perform delicate experiments successfully certainly. If a dream is
circling around him he will be quite unable to achieve the results well. The idea or concepts of nervo-reflectant, is the
highest or last amongst the groups of nervo-reflectant. Thought is the
reflected, the root of an idea. So far known to us, there is only matter in motion
which constitutes the whole universe. The matter has its forms.
There are always interactions with forms of matter. One of the highest
forms of biological matter is the nervo-reflectant in human being. Its
final form is the thought and the concepts. This thought is a form of
matter and matter is eternal and in constant motion. It has diversities of
forms and that it undergoes changes of a dialectical kind, etc. The god believer holds that God creates matter and
direct all the changes in the form of matter. According to our
knowledge of the function of the nervo-reflectant it is the man specifically
the nervo-reflectant which did the job of creating God, that is, just as
scientist tries to conclude the existence of molecules. Molecules can
be proved to exist but God cannot be proved to exist. That is God does
not exist in material form. So far known to us it is matter that
changes matter and God a product of the thought, of the highest form of
matter and cannot materialize in God forms. But it can materialize,
that is, through practical activities of man himself in cultural forms as
observed in Bible, the Koran, the Bhagavagita, etc. The standpoint is
on the reflection of the reflected. The more important standpoint is
on the physical process leading to the physiological processes and to the psychological processes. The nervo-reflectant not only responds to external
phenomena but it also plays an important role in building up its
superstructures. 10
The Distinction between Termino and
Reflections: A termino is
called a termino because this whole nervous system with the brains that
possesses it is itself perfected to the note
TI in the
biocosmic octave which is found in modern man, and modern man falls on the
note TI
which is the last note, therefore, the terminal
stage to a new technocosmic octave which is also fully developed to-date.
Such a being-material nervous system has a termino with psychic properties.
The terminos are most developed at the brains. The termino is the highest
level of the nervo-reflectant of modern man. It “housed” reflections –
concepts, ideas and thoughts after the deep process of reflections, whereas
nervo-reflectant is quick impulses or minuscule reflections at a lower and
simpler level of sensation, perceptions and reflexes. Although the termino is undergoing quantitative
changes in the materially sense, nevertheless, this does not mean that the
reflections (specifically the idea, consciousnesses, etc.) also undergo
quantitative changes and therefore no transition points in idea. What
is a reflection? A reflection (bio-mirror reflection of the external
objects only and not the internal “objects”) is a reflection of external
objects in this sense. Nature is always in contradictions for example, i. “Material” bourgeoisie and “ material”
proletarians ii. Actions and reactions in motion of objects iii. Coming-to-be and ceasing-to-be in organic
development of beings All these external contradictoriness are reflected
in the mind by the termino. No wonder in our reflections there are
always contradictions. The process of changing ideas is in small
“leaps” – thesis, antithesis and synthesis and so on. This is a
dialectical process in the mind. These little “leaps” are steps
towards knowing of the whole. The little “leaps” are analogous to
knowing holism from the fragments of music, literature, languages; bourgeois
politics, ideology philosophy, etc. The consciousness of the unity of
all these fragments leads to the conception of the so-called Absolute.
No wonder many people have as many kinds of “leaps” in their ideas.
Each “leap” is a realization of the Absolute. Yet is the Absolute is
eternal? No, the Absolute itself is contradictory innerly as an
autoegocrat primordial seed. It can therefore be said that there are continuous
“leap” in the ideas of the reflection of the reflected external phenomena
but certainly the terminos are still under quantitative changes materially. The termino itself after
it has reached its psychic “boiling-point” also changes its nature led
qualitative leap and all reflections turn into fetters. The
nervo-reflectant cannot
reflect anymore. But nervo-reflectant can reproduce new “needs’.
The organic bodies therefore undergo production and reproduction of new
ones. The so-called life span of the termino is short, it can only
reflect all that the termino can possibly provide as a base to the
reflections.
Reflection, on the other hand, is a process of formation of deep thought
that is rooted in perceptions, sensation or immediate mirror reflections.
Termino is the harvest of the brains in the nervous system of modern man.
Immediate reflections, sensations, perceptions (grouping of sensations of
the same or different) are harvest of the nervo-reflectant. Concepts
and thoughts are harvest of the termino. The termino is a group of
being-psyche hydrogens. 11
Termino and the so-called
Logical The
logical is the reflection of the historical processes of the real world.
The real world or the real external phenomena undergoes a process of flow
and, changes which lead from one into another. Even if you have fallen
down “accidentally”, there is actually is a process with causes and effects,
one leading to the other and that when you fall, your motion is determined.
The process which nature works is a dialectical one. The dinosaurs
come into existence and then disappear. Planets come into existence and then
disappear. This process is copied or reflected by the terminos in the
brain centers.
And it becomes the foundation of the so-called logic. To logic own
procedure is a continuous “flow”, one “logon” leading to another, a
deductive process that flows. That which does not “flow” is illogical.
Pure logic is quite useless as it lacks real basis of the material
phenomena. Certainly, the most logical is the direct interpretation of
real external phenomena. That is, to think in terms of what happens
actually in nature and not what our sheer subjective impulses dictates. The
logical is the nature of the termino base, whose integrated wired network in
the brains makes it possible. But higher termino can be illogical in
behavior or fuzzy logical, the later being higher. 12
The Nervo-Reflectant Review
Unlike the termino which is the produce of psyche hydrogens of the head
brains, the nervo-reflectant is the psyche hydrogen produced by the nervous
system (lower instinctive brains) of the human body. In order really
to understand the nervo-reflectant, the approach is twofold: i. From the standpoint of the
reflected ii. From the standpoint of the
material a)
What we can see, can hear, can
touch, can smell or can take are all reflections. They are reflections
due to the nervo-reflectant, which is made up of the nervous subsystems. It
is the harvest of the work of all the subsystems in the nervous system of
man. b)
Material
is the basis, and the reflections are its properties. In a word, this
means that the complicated motions, transformations and changes that are
going on in our physical body and the material forms of our nervous system,
and nature can produce in reflections. Reflections that lead to the
reflected. 13
Relation between Matter and Reflection The material world
undergoes continuous changes independent of man’s will, consciousness,
ideas, perceptions, conceptions, images, etc,…..every change in the material
forms specifically of living bodies results in varying degree of
reflectional changes in the process of reflections. When a person is
dying, the amount and degree of reflection diminishes; when he is completely
dead, the degree of reflection is said to be equal to zero. Man and
all living beings die. The reflection capacity of the
nervo-reflectant therefore
changes with the change in the development of nervo-reflectant, especially
with the changes in the network of neurons that can reflect the outside and
the inside world to the human body. The fundamental change is natural
- the molecules, the genes, the chromosomes, the cells, the tissues and the
organs undergo various degree of development to natural automatic act of
body creation. That “thing” which really exist is matter and in the
universe matter forms. (Material forms) always change. At a certain
stage of creation, a matter form comes into existence, and that is the
nervo-reflectant. With the formation of the brains comes a termino
matter which in turn carries ideas. Ideas too changes with every
change in the development of the nervo-reflectant and the termino that
reflects and house materials from outside world. There is evidence
that nervo-reflectant plays a part in idea formation but more importantly is
that its major function is to reflect, collect impulses from the objects of
the external world for the termino development. It is determined only
the varying degree of reflections and the degree of reflection is simply a
dependent property of the higher form of matter, that is, the
nervo-reflectant. 14
Nervo-Reflectant and
Reflections are Interdependent It
has been pointed out that the nervo-reflectant is the higher form of matter,
and capable of performing very complicated interactions within matter, that
is, in the body and that of the so-called external to the body. The
effect or the resultant effect of this complicated, minuscule interaction of
the nervo-reflectant constitutes the reflections. “spirit”-like or
“mirror”-like or “photograph”-like property of all the molecules, neurons,
neuron groups, brains and the nervous systems,. In generally, we can
identify the nervo-reflectant as playing a major role, as follows:
i. To collect
impulses from the outside world through the five sense organs ii. To sort and transmit them to the brains for deep reflections iii.
To direct regeneration or repair body or healing including all the
superstructural construction of the nervous system Important note: For (a) the
collection of impulses is considered to be sensing and observing both the
inner and the outer world For (b) the
sorting is considered to be perceiving after sensing and the reflections can
be generally considered as conceptions leading to thoughts, in the
psychologist sense. (will, consciousness, ideas and thoughts). For (c) the process of
repairing and regenerating the superstructure is likely to involve
reflections. So the role of the
nervo-reflectant can be generally
said “to reflect” both elements from inner and outer world of man.
Nervo-reflectant is interdependent as it is the superstructural (emotion,
desire and cultural) collection housed in all the brains of the great
nervous system of modern man. The function of nervo-reflectant
determines the reflections for the termino, which consists mostly of mental
and cultural collections housed in the upper brains. The reflections
itself can lead to will or desire which in term determine the quality of the
nervo-reflectant enabling it having properties capable of improving the
quality of the s superstructures. No wonder, the church (Bible) evolve
out of the functions of superstructure. The philosopher has only
interpreted the world in various ways, the point however is to change it.
(Marx) 15
Nervo-Reflectant,
Termino and the External World The
only way the nervo-reflectant can reflect objects in both the inner and the
outer world. The reflection mirror acts fast and direct.
Practice is reflected fast by our nervous system in the service of deep
reflection for quality ideas and theories; therefore, practice is the father
of theory. Where do quantum theory and wave theory come from? They
come from the practice of observations and scientific experiments with deep
reflections of the fine real ones outside us like the lights, sounds and
electricity. The more practice that you engage yourself in, the more
sound you can hear in your knowledge. If you want to know the lives of
the proletarians, work with them, teach them and learn from them. Be
one with them in practice. Only then you can have their “I AM” as your
“I AM”. The nervo-reflectant of man undergoes two kinds of changes throughout the development of man. It is subjected to:
i. Quantitative changes
ii. Qualitative
changes
iii. The laws of Negation
of Negation, which is the seal of genetic encoding, preservation and
reproduction at the next higher or lower level iv.
And
subjected also to the Law of Uneven Development Somewhere in the final
stage there is a qualitative dialectical “leap” from there onwards.
Soon after a child in born there are no more “leaps” until death. All
changes in this stage, termino of the
nervo-reflectant are quantitative changes of the
termino. Knowledge is a quantitative measure; the more the
interactions of the termino with the external world, the more is the amount
of knowledge (includes maturity subconsciousness, ideas, etc) accumulated in
a man. No wonder a child is less matured, generally, than an aged man
due to unfinished quantitative nature. But why is it that some
children we more matured than an old aged man? This “maturity and
knowledge” is quantitative measure. It is dependent on the “number of
stored interactions” derived from the external world with termino (this
includes the “digestion” too) and not the time, strictly speaking, although
in general, certainly, the longer the termino “live” the more is the “number
of stored interactions,” the more is the knowledge.
Termino, the final historical stage of the development of the
nervo-reflectant in man for which termino has in it the residue of the
earlier nervo-reflectant, a sub-consciousness so to say. That is why
when we talk about the termino we say it has in it the nervo-reflectant and
when we talk about the nervo-reflectant we say it has termino only when the
higher brains of cognition, affection and psychomotor are present. 16
What is thought?
Certainly, at a time when the termino interacts with all the external
elements it eats and digests them for its own growth. External
phenomena are therefore perceived as a “group of holistic foods” rather than
in single sense. The combination of many senses results in perception.
Human being therefore perceived not sense. But perceptions can be
brought together and further analysed by the mind or dialectically explored
in the domain of its origin, development and termination, in terms of main
causes and secondary causes, and in terms of parts and whole. The
physics method of “breaking” nature into heat, light, sound, etc. is
certainly a correct categorization based on the natural observation of
nature. At
first, some kind of external elements interact with our neurons and a
reflection of these phenomena results. Now, this is more important,
what will happen if the external elements disappear and no more performing
their interacting with the neurons? But we can still “remember” the
missing phenomena. This is where it becomes necessary to introduce the
concept of memory as thought which is something stored in this memory held
by the psyche hydrogens of the termino. The ability to retain the
“something from the external world” which is no longer interacting with the
neurons is called the memory and thought is stored in this memory.
Termino nervous systems have thinking and feeling functions, even higher
ones within quantitative change limits. It is the nervous system of
Homo Sapiens Sapiens. 17
Dialectical “leap” in
Knowledge Specifically
Dialectical “leap” in knowledge that is, total disappearance of knowledge
occurs when a man dies. But before a man dies his knowledge does not
seem to decrease but increase through a process called learning at least
tremendously. Attempts to meditate knowledge away or de-learning only
to produce thought concentrates with more space and time for more knowledge.
It changes the properties of matter in termino form. In proportion,
the higher the fineness of matters of the termino, the higher is the
knowledge quality. When the matter of the termino has reached its
“boiling-point” the termino changes its quality. No more essential
product, that is, knowledge is manufactured because the “factory” has
changed its quality. All knowledge, ideas, and consciousness have thus
ceased to exist. The termino cannot reflect any more. The
superstructure disintegrates. The being disintegrates as the man dies. The motion of internal nervo–reflectant (physical
shape of the nervous system and has higher psyche in it) and its
superstructure (tissues, organs, systems and the holistic body which have
various grades of lower psyche in them) is a contradictory motion. The many
forms of the superstructures of organic bodies are therefore products of
various forms of the nervo–reflectant quality which are operative. Every
qualitative change in the nervo–reflectant of organic bodies leads to the
production of new kinds of superstructures. The superstructure of the adult
is therefore different from that of the fetus. The termino has its
descending “history”. The god’s theory is simply the essential products of
the termino. Once the termino “leaps” materially, the “God’s theory also
“leaps” reflectedly. The existence of god reduces to the functions of the
termino. The nervo–reflectant controls the superstructures. The
lower form of nervo–reflectant controls the so-called involuntary
superstructures in the fetus stage in particular come only although in adult
stage, nevertheless, this does not mean that all the remnants of the old
forms of nervo–reflectant belonging to the fetus stage are totally got rid
of. This explains why in the termino stage there exist so-called voluntary
and involuntary actions in the superstructures. External objects of sensing termino and products of
termino, that is, ideas concepts theories, wills, etc. The sensing
termino is a self-working “organ”, just like another organ. Its function is
merely to produce ideas concept, theories, plans and wills. It lies in the
head of man when sensitive termino and external “phenomena” interacts, the
resultant force of which acts along the diagonals of the parallelogram.
This force is responsible for the “manufacture” of the ideas, concepts,
theories, wills, and etcetera of mankind. The importance of dialectical conceptions in organic and social developments: From the explanation of Marx as society and from the explanation of Darwin on organic developments, it can be realized that dialectics is “something” which we cannot ignore. In a word specifically in order to understand society and the organic development well and the development of nature in general, the best approach is dialectical and “discontinuity” principles. It is impossible to understand nature by claiming that the cause is here and there. Some tend to play leading causes some tend to play secondary causes.
18 The TERMINO is the name I give to the last and highest biocosmic stage of development of the nervous system (brains) of Neolithic-to-Modern man when the FA-Historical Biocosmic Octave has struggled, ascended and dominates during the Ti-Holocene Epoch (12,000 years ago of the Neolithic man through the Modern Man till today). During this epoch, the biocosmic octave (with its cellular genetic coded nuclei and lower instinctive-moving-sex brains), the technocosmic octave (with its techno-knowledge upper brains) and the sociocosmic octave (social brains), and all their related historical biocosmic, technocosmic and sociocosmic species are actively vibrating in the 4 bodies of man.
|