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Das Wollen und Wissen der Tiere als evolutionstheoretischer Forschungsgegenstand
Author(s) -
Preuss F.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
anatomia, histologia, embryologia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.34
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1439-0264
pISSN - 0340-2096
DOI - 10.1111/j.1439-0264.1987.tb00735.x
Subject(s) - instinct , consciousness , nothing , action (physics) , psychology , sensation , cognitive science , epistemology , philosophy , neuroscience , biology , ecology , physics , quantum mechanics
Summary Will and knowledge of animals as topic of evolution‐theoretical investigations Only living beings have a will for action, and all living beings with the exception of man can will nothing else but to survive. The innate will drives them to self‐preservation, species‐preservation, and self‐organization. Only man can renounce to do so. This uniform will is supported by the most differentiated knowledge. In cells this knowledge is chemical and by sensation; in animals it is physical and by sensation. It senses and remedies three bodily needs: hunger, disease, and propagation. Only know‐how can remedy needs. The need for knowledge is therefore the primary need, and improvement of knowledge is the decisive evolutionary change. Chemical knowledge by sensation in most cases is genetic, ground‐conscious, and hereditary knowledge. In physical knowledge acquired by sensation, ground‐consciousness is lifted to the instinct‐conscious level of the nerve cells through which learning‐consciousness is developed further. The laws governing this are described elsewhere.