(East-West Question) Guan Buzabu: Which of the human survival codes have not been cracked?
China News Agency, Hohhot, March 25th telegram: Guan Buzabu: What are the codes of human survival that have not been cracked?
China News Agency reporter Li Aiping
After the first seed of mankind took root, it began a long and complicated journey of reproduction and migration, and formed different races all over the world.
Humans are like stars in the sky, speak various languages, have various cultural characteristics, and multiply various civilizations.
How did human civilization originate and be born?
What does human civilization mean since ancient times?
Buzabu, member of the National Committee of the Chinese Writers Association and vice-chairman of the Chinese Ethnic Writers Association, recently accepted an exclusive interview with China News Agency "Dongxiwen", and interpreted it from a writer's perspective.
The following is a summary of the interview transcript:
China News Service reporter: In 2021, the Writers Publishing House will publish your book "Notes on Humanity". Some people commented that it is a "strange book" that "interprets the uncracked survival code of mankind". What was the original intention or goal of creating this book?
Guan Buzabu:
According to my rough summary, since ancient times, the self-awakening of human cognition has been carried out four times.
For the first time, it was called the "Axial Age", when human beings went from clans and tribes with simple interests to enter the era of tribal alliances or national interest groups where multiple tribes were unified.
In this way, the original simple interest relationship has been superimposed layer by layer, which has become complicated.
As a result, the form of social existence began to become chaotic, and there were differences between the rich and the poor, the difference between the noble and the lowly, unreasonable, unfair, fighting, war, theft, suffering, hunger, etc., and human beings had to think about "how should we exist?" "The problem.
At this time, Laozi, Confucius, Sakyamuni, Socrates, Plato and other sages appeared, realizing the first awakening of mankind.
The second awakening originated from an episode in the history of human existence.
In Christendom, because of the judgment of "God's creation" and the presumption of original sin, the distinction between "city of God" and "city of the world" appeared.
Therefore, the questions of “are human beings created by God” and “whether human beings have original sin” have become questions that human beings must face and answer.
The Renaissance movement emerged from this and completed the second awakening of mankind.
The Enlightenment that followed immediately should be counted as the third awakening of mankind.
At this time, we are faced with the problem left over from the Renaissance, that is, "what kind of dignity and status should human beings, who are not created by God and have no original sin, participate in social life?" This awakening is mainly based on redesigning The form of social existence is the symbol to obtain the concept of "democracy and freedom" and complete the mission.
The third awakening comes with the transformation of human life into capitalism.
What capitalism presents to mankind is not the end of history, but a new systematic irrationality and injustice.
Therefore, finding ways to eliminate unreasonable and unfair social existence has become the major subject of the Fourth Awakening.
It was at this time that the socialist doctrine was born.
As I understand it, each awakening arises to solve a major problem facing humanity.
In today's world, human beings are still faced with the problem of unreasonable and unfair interests between people and countries.
Today, the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind has been put forward.
As an oriental in this era, we should actively participate in this topic and speak out for a new round of human awakening, even if the voice is weak.
"Ape Picking" sculpture.
Photo by Zhang Yongxiang issued by China News Agency
China News Agency reporter: According to common sense, we are used to using the Paleolithic and Neolithic to summarize the long and ancient years of human beings. How do you view this issue? How do we read humans today?
Guan Buzabu:
According to the time period of the old and new stone tools, this is the historical cognition in the archaeological sense, and it is impeccable.
However, the history of human beings cannot be observed and interpreted only from an archaeological point of view, but more attention should be paid to the changes in their living forms during this period.
Generally speaking, the Neolithic Age lasted from two to three million years ago to about 5,000 to 2,000 years ago.
During this period, human beings not only went from the rough Paleolithic Age to the Neolithic Age where they could make and use pottery and jade, but also completed the transition from animals to humans, from natural survival to social survival, from the instinct era to the nature era, Changes from blood-related interests to tribal alliance interests, from collectors of living resources to producers of living resources.
It is also interspersed with the birth of power, the emergence of totems and gods, the development of ethics and morality, and the growth of the mind, all the processes that lay the foundation for the existence of today's society.
To interpret human beings, these are the hardware and elements that must be paid attention to, and also the key to understanding.
As a time division of archaeology, the concept of the Stone Age is of course important, but we should beware of historical cognition from concept to concept, and beware of the limitations of interpretation by culture and civilization, otherwise we may never understand human beings.
In the Plaza de España in Rome, Italy, nuns from all over the world can often be seen walking around to worship the Column of the Immaculate Conception.
Photo by China News Agency Fa Tiandi
China News Service reporter: In your opinion, how to understand culture and civilization, and how to interpret it more reasonably?
Guan Buzabu:
Culture and civilization are hot words these days, like a storyteller's fan, used for pomp.
Now, there is a relatively prominent phenomenon, which is to use the concept of culture and civilization to interpret human life and human history, in order to distinguish between good and bad, backward and advanced, civilization and barbarism, and also want to derive certain future-related issues. some conclusions.
There is a cautionary side to doing this, that is, you may slip into the quagmire of conceptual calculations if you are not careful.
In fact, culture and civilization are the sum total of human’s cognition of all things and behaviors in the world, and civilization has the characteristics of a way of life that reaches a consensus on the basis of a certain survival resource. At the same time, a large part of the two overlaps.
The only difference is that civilization is an upgrade of culture, brought into an order or system.
Culture and civilization are the product of human survival activities, not pre-existing things like natural landscapes, so it is difficult to become a tool for solving future problems.
Because it is only a concept that summarizes the experience of human existence, not a key.
In the Liangzhu Ancient City Ruins Park in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, a huge colorful rice field painting based on the jade cong with the face of Liangzhu gods and animals was planted, showing the Neolithic Liangzhu culture with contemporary agricultural technology.
(UAV photo) Photo by China News Agency reporter Wang Gang
China News Agency reporter: What does science and technology mean to human beings? How to understand the development of artificial intelligence?
Guan Buzabu:
Science and technology should be the wisdom accumulated by human beings for a long time and the ability to be transformed into productive forces.
In the primitive state, humans and animals obtain survival resources through the power of muscles, and there is no knowledge and wisdom to speak of.
After evolution, human beings got some inspiration from nature and used the interaction between objects to improve their ability to obtain more survival resources and solve survival problems.
For example, inspired by meteorites to know how to smelt iron, inspired by the effect of wind on objects, using windmills to pump water, etc.
With further evolution, people moved from passive acceptance of inspiration to active search for ways to amplify their abilities.
To this end, people start from understanding the principle of existence of all things in the universe, and begin to consciously make efforts to master the generation structure, survival law, order and interaction of all things.
The knowledge obtained from this is often referred to as science. In fact, it is the wisdom obtained from human nature. This wisdom began to be transformed into human capabilities in the 18th century. The power of muscles was infinitely amplified by machines, producing increasingly rich survival. thing.
So in essence, science and technology is the wisdom that is constantly transformed into capabilities.
So what is the purpose of human beings to amplify their own abilities?
That is to produce the survival resources that can meet the needs and enjoy a more comfortable life. The present level of industrialization is making efforts to meet this basic need of human beings.
Among them, artificial intelligence has developed rapidly by replacing human labor. This may be a yin and yang diagram that appears in front of human beings, and it is worth facing and thinking in the name of human beings.
In the final analysis, preventing being replaced should be the bottom line of human beings.
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A mall in Beijing exhibited artificially intelligent mechanical bionic sheep.
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Interviewee Profile:
Official Buzabu, (also known as Te. Guanbuzabu), was born in Kulun Banner, Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia.
Poet, writer, historian and cultural scholar.
He used to be the chairman of the Inner Mongolia Writers Association and the chairman of the Inner Mongolia Federation of Literary and Art Circles.
Now he is a member of the National Committee of the Chinese Writers Association and the vice president of the Chinese Ethnic Writers Association.
Since the mid-1970s, he has published works in Mongolian poetry such as "Cow Herding Baby", "The Bells of the 21st Century" and "Blue Sky and White Clouds".
Later, he switched to Mongolian and Chinese bilingual writing, and translated and published the modern Chinese version of "The Secret History of Mongolia".
He is the author of the long historical essay "The Mongolian Code", the biographical literature "Mongolian Back - The Biography of Sagan Chechen", "Human Notes" and so on.
He has won the "Chinese Minority Literary Creation Horse Award", "Inner Mongolia Literary Creation Solongga Award", "Dorina Literary Award" and other awards.
It advocates the mass communication of culture, and advocates observing and telling human history and culture from a wide angle and a positive standpoint.