Wang Jianping: Daily Article: The Theory of Perception. Part VIII(52)
The relationship between feeling and knowing
Our usual understanding of perception is that from the perception of knowledge, through the perceptual behavior and perceptual process to obtain the result of perception, existence for us, is a bunch of perceptions about things. It can be seen that from the beginning of the sense to the end of the knowledge, what we get is the compound perception. Therefore, sense and knowledge are inseparable, and there is sense that there is knowledge, so it is perception. Knowing by feeling is a combination of two ways, feeling is one way, knowing is one way. Sense is a kind of movement, is the interactive movement of consciousness and matter, sense obtains information from motion, this is only a process of acquisition, the information generated in this process is not processed by consciousness, just an abstract stream of consciousness. In this process, the free group of particles begins to combine in an orderly manner, and the combined information is processed into an image through the presentation, and the image expresses the information of the sense, which is knowledge. For all sentient beings, knowing is existence, knowing is manifested as existence, and knowing from feeling is from movement to existence. Existence is a figurative display, and motion is abstract potential. From the movement of the sense to the manifestation of knowing, it is said that existence is perception, not existence is being perceived. "In" and "being" reveal two principles of existence and the process of existence, "being" is moving, and "being" is stationary. Therefore, the process of feeling and knowing is the process by which existence exists, and this process completely negates the principle and process of objective existence.
Because of the perceptual motion and the result of perceptual existence, sense and knowledge is an interactive and mutually modulated behavioral process, sense is embodied in knowing, knowledge is fed back to sense, and sense and knowledge exist as one, inseparable. For other creatures, sense and knowledge are completely integrated, never contradictory, and their senses are accurately embodied as knowledge, which influences behavioral activities, and the trinity of sense, knowledge, and action is never separated. Therefore, their response is accurate and their action is agile, which is the direct reaction and embodiment of existence. We people are different, people's knowledge system is too developed and too complex, the processing and feedback of sense are seriously lagging behind, and the feedback we know is not only delayed, but also contradictory. The human language concept and spiritual consciousness system for the processing of sense is more and more powerful, but also more and more diverse and intelligent, the derivation of knowledge, extension and creativity is getting higher and higher, which leads to the amount and scope of our knowledge far beyond the sense, we are no longer from the sense of knowing, from the feeling of knowing, we are from knowing to knowing, from knowing and knowing. This variation results in knowing not only being far greater than sensation, but also separating from it. We even call sensations sensibility, instinctive low-level beings, calling all feelings and sensations superficial knowledge and subjective knowledge, and we extend the function of knowledge into cognitive systems and knowledge systems, believing that this is the basis for our knowledge of the world and ourselves.
It can be seen that our system of knowledge is not only detached from the system of perception, but also cognition completely outlaws perception. We base cognition on ways other than perception, so we don't know what kind of perception is, we only know the objective way of cognition, so existence becomes the existence of our cognition. We become people who know and grasp the world, and this is where great errors arise. As a result, we no longer know what perception is, we do not know that we are perceiving, and we do not know that the way in which the world exists is perception. The relationship between feeling and knowing is so alive that we exist and don't know why it exists? We are knowing everything, not knowing what is the purpose of knowing everything? We survive and don't know what the purpose of survival is? How absurd is it that our knowledge sends us to such a situation?
The birth of the theory of perception has made the world look confused, they think, what is perception? Our cognition has long been far beyond perception, why should we in turn value perception? They don't know, they don't know perception, how do they know existence? Can't help but feel it, where do you know where it comes from? Discovering this will make people sweat a lot, how far has our knowledge gone away from the existence of the sense of being? How mutated has it been? How dangerous is it already? How far away and how far away and how far apart are we from the existence and the original existence that we are in, and unconsciously, what have we all done?
Knowing cannot leave the sense, cannot deviate from the sense, because the sense is existence itself. We have created another cognitive world outside of existence, and we do not even know the absurdity and dangers of this cognitive world, but we have suffered enough from the cognitive world. This cognitive world has given us the perception of extreme discomfort, and we still don't know where this perception comes from? We don't know why there is so much suffering in this cognitive world that is far from the perceptual existence, which is actually a punishment for us to be far away from the perceptual world.
The perception of existence is the root of existence, and human beings who are already intelligent without feeling have suffered many tribulations. Back to perception is our only way out, we can still have a developed knowledge of the processing function and display function, but we must follow the sense, that is, according to the rules and laws of the sense, this sense without language expression, there is no concept processing sense is what we call "Tao", sense is the Tao, the Tao is in the sense, the Tao of the sense into our knowledge, this is the mission we want to complete.
We must know that everyone is in the sense, we have to feel, but we have the feeling and do not know. Try to feel and know, feel and know, this is what we should do. Knowing without feeling, not feeling confused, this is what we should put an end to. Going back to perception, which is a basic requirement, can we abandon the irrationality of cognition and return to reasonable perception? This is the return that humanity desperately needs. (next)