Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300010002-2 LNAGS-F2 CHINESE JOURNAL OF SOMATIC SCIENCE VOLUME 1, NO. 3 SRD ISSUE (MAY, 19791) MATERIAL CIVILIZATION, SPIRITUAL CIVILIZATION AND SOMATIC SCIENCE BY: Chen Xin Human civilization includes two major portions, material civilization and spiritual civilization. This is the result of mankind’s reforming the objective world and the subjective world. The building of civilization in the spirit of socialism is divided into two aspects, cultural construction and ideological construction. Cultural construction refers to the development of education, science, literature, arts, news, publishing, health, physical education and other cultural matters and improving the level of knowledge of the people. Ideological construction refers to the Marxist view of the world and scientific theories, Communist ideology, beliefs and sorais- Socialist culture is the objective manifestation of spiritual civilization. Socialist ideology is the subjective manifestation of spiritual civilization. Science and technology is a major factor in promoting material civilization and spiritual civilization. Somatic science research involves the spiritual and the material, the subjective and the objective, the relationship between consciousness and the brain. It has formed a new system which includes Marxist philosophy, social science and the various natural sciences. It is a direct major factor in the promotion of spiritual civilization and material civilization. SOHATIC SCIENCE AND MATERIAL CIVILIZATION Modern science and technology has in general gone through three developmental stages. From the middle of the 16th century to the beginning of the industrial revolution at the end of the 18th century can be called the beginning stage of modern science and technology. Such men as Descartes and Newton laid the foundation of modern science. The second period, from the beginning of the industrial revolution in the late i8th century to this century was the maturation period of science and technology . It was during this period that the three great inventions of the 19th century appeared - the theory of evolution, the theory of cells and the law of the conservation of energy. At the same time, a series of classical scientific theories in such fields as dynamics, heat, light, electricity, chemistry, biology and geology developed to maturity, basically forming the body of modern science and technology. The third period, from the beginning of this century to the present day is the period of tremendous developments in science and technology. Mankind hopes that the Zist century will become the century of peaceful development, but economic and technical competition is still very fierce. Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300010002-2
rath ota ad tates Satatians fle UM RS cand: Boaah wen gnt gt Ate pte Ng eA MS ALE AEDT SS SHSES PRU SSR Se SAH SERRE SOG agus Siicliacacttatec nettle Coin aoe cecr nn ack Lana a anti ad ila  beat W eAAROTA  O Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300010002-2 LNAGS 92 I. LOOKING TOWARD THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENTS OF THE 21ST CENTURY, IT I&.. POSSIBLE THAT THEY WILL BE CHARACTERIZED AS FOLLOWS 1. It will be characterized by the rapid development of science and technology. The world’s scientific and technologically advanced nations will concentrate their manpower, materials and wealth on currently advanced science and technology. At the same time, new major breakthroughs may occur in the current level of scientific and technological development in a series of scientific and technological fields. New scientific theories will also appear, and there will be new knowledge of the natural phenomena of the universe. This will deeply affect the development of the worlds production. There will be new production techniques, new types of biological products, new synthetic materials , new information, energy and communications structures. New changes will occur because of this in peoples ideas and concepts, production methods, social order and life styles. 2. It will be characterized by science and technology closely tied to economic development. Economic development will become much more dependent upon science and technology. The make up of commercial products will include technological factors, technological discoveries will include scientific factors which will be concentrated to a great degree. There will also be changes in the division betweens science and technology. There will be crossovers and overlapping between the fields of basic research, applied research and technological development. The time in which scientific and technological discoveries are converted into commercial products will be greatly shortened. 3. It will be characterized by science and technology which will develop high technology and accelerate high technology industries. The development of high technology will determine the world ranking of every country in the world in the next century. What we call high technology refers to the establishment on the basis of comprehensive scientific research, new technology groups on the leading edge of modern science and technology, which will play a major role in development of productive forces and promoting social civilization. They are clearly strategic, risky, and tend to proliferate and permeate. They require concentrated knowledge, concentrated investments and advanced management. Hi-Tech Industry uses high technology achievements as the primary technology and resource investment to produce goods of high value. 4. It will be characterized by science and technology which will exist worldwide. Because modern science and technology is the basis on which the newest scientific and technological achievements of the world are developed, the greater the degree of concentration of technology, the more and more complex technological development will become and the more multifarious it will becone. There is no country in the world which can 2 Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300010002-2
“pao alii) LAREN ADV ADO RECT AT RS AA oN wt ae om Mn eee ORR ET ERTIES PNT NR TN Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300010002-2 LN465-92 of its own efforts develop and solve all technology. A number of major problems affecting the society of man such as environment and resources are already world wide problems. The trend toward a world wide division of labor and cooperation in science and technology is becoming more and more accepted. The world will be one of mutual reliance and mutual competition. 2. It will be characterized by science and technology where science and technology, economics and the environment will become more and more coordinated in their development. For a country, the degree of modernization of its society will not only be manifest in its degree of economic and scientific and technological development, but will also be manifest in the coordinated development of its society, environment, education and culture. Throughout time, science and technology has brought mankind great benefits, making tremendous advancements possible in human society. However, advancements in science and technology have also caused changes in the relationship between man and nature. Since the industrial revolution, man has recognized that science and technology are means of overcoming nature, managing nature and controlling nature. Because the developments of science and technology have brought increased knowledge to mankind and expansion of his field of activities, human culture and life have also quickly improved. And on another hand they have also presented mankind with new problems. Some of these are an increased burden on the environment on a world wide scale, rapid depletion of usable resources and a dramatic rise in energy consumption. Although so far there have been all sorts of efforts and partial solutions, but there has still been no change in the basic direction. Therefore, when considering scientific and technical developments in the 21ist century, there must be some basic changes in the traditional system of science and technology. Japan was first to emphasize and to propose research into a new human field, which drew world wide attention. We believe that we should pay attention to studying life sciences, human sciences and thought sciences from the viewpoint of somatic science. Research into the various abilities of animals and humans should clarify the basic abilities of bodies, the best forms of achieving naterial exchange mechanisms, movement mechanisms, immune abilities, self healing abilities, awareness, mnenory and thought and judgement. People have attempted through various means to simulate artificial life, to produce high capability products which consume little energy and create little waste. They hope to create a new science and new production systems to coordinate between man and nature. II. THE BREAKTHROUGHS OF SOMATIC SCIENCE WILL LEAD TO A NEW SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION, CREATING A NEW HATERIAL CULTURE FOR MANKIND Man is an extremely complex giant system. This giant system is also open, with material, energy and informational exchanges with the surrounding environment and the universe. Therefore, it may be said that man and the environment, man and the universe, form a super fiant systenu. According to system sciences and the principles of system theory, to 3 Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300010002-2 FP A Mth) Be RN ERE eS”
Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300010002-2 LN465-932 understand such a complex material system and to clarify the abilities of the system, it is necessary to us the methods of the reduction theory, to separate each level. However, this is not enough. It is necessary to use the concept of the theory of _ the whole to understand the multiple level structure and the different functions of the different levels formed by the giant system of the human body. It is necessary to combine the reduction theory and system theory to comprehensively study the complex giant system of he human body which is open to the environment and to the universe. This is the philosophical idea of the concept of man and nature in the research of somatic science. There are three parts to the concept of man and nature. The universal view of man and nature, the macroscopic view of man and nature and the microscopic view of man and nature. 1. The first part, the universal view of man and nature. This considers man within the universe. It emphasizes that man’s existence or appearance is related to practical evolution, or this may be turned around to state that the reality of the existence of the universe is a necessary condition for the existence of man. Carter pointed out: The evolution of the universe over its process of several billion years, had many possibilities. There were many branching out points. Why did it only take the path the universe actually followed? If the evolution of the universe had not taken the current path, then the appearance of life in this world, including mankind, would not have been very probable. All of the universal physical parameters which we know determined the evolution of the universe and physical parameters which determine the movement of mass are all necessary for the appearance of man. It may also be stated that man appeared because of reality. Therefore the nature of the universe must be like this. In other words, from the nature of matter, man and the universe, or man and the solar system, or the Milky Way and the entire solar system are all connected. This is the universal concept of man and nature. This field has its basic physical concepts, its ruler of ten billion light years, and must use the broad definition of the theory of relativity. 2. The second part, the macroscopic view of man and nature. This investigates the relationship between the inside of he human body and the environment. In this field, it is necessary to use Newtonian physics. It was greatly emphasized by Chinese traditional philosophy and Chinese traditional medicine. Modern environmental medicine is also another part of this. However, it is one sided. It only studies the affects of the environment on the human body and ignores the effects of the human body on the environment. This ignores the fact that the environment and man at this macroscopic scale is a giant system type relationship, and even more, does not use the methods of system sciences to study this relationship. 3. The third part, the microscopic view of man and nature. Investigating man and the environment at the microscopic level, or what is the quantum mechanics level, the mutual effects between man and the universe is called the macroscopic view of man and nature. Its yardstick is generally within the range of 10 to the power of negative 12 4 Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300010002-2 tala cede cwce teal tsa aS NAL RLS OTE
Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300010002-2 LN465-92 centimeters. The microscopic view of man and nature began with the theory of measurements of quantum mechanics. The theoretical system proposed by quantum mechanics, if specifically used to measure the objective world, will not fit into the traditional concepts. Because of this, Einstein was not completely satisfied with quantum physics and proposed the hypothesis of hidden parameters. This was that the movement of matter could still fit into classical measurements, but could there could also be some hidden parameters which were not yet known in addition to known mass motion parameters. However, the results,of research over the past twenty years does not support the theory of hidden parameters but supports the theories of guantum physics instead. How then is the problem of measurement to be resolved? Some people favor using the macroscopic characteristics of measurement instruments and adding the quantum statistical mechanics to solve this problem. This is using the characteristic of slow reaction of “setual" instruments. From the viewpoint of the concept of man and nature, so called "actual" instruments are still imaginary instruments, and what are really instruments are the sensual organs through which man knows the objective world. Furthermore, the nerve elements inside the sensory organs and the brain that processes the information is 4 microscopic, quantum mechanical process. The result of the brain processing senses is the measurement of human recognition, human recognition of the objective world. Therefore, to thoroughly resolve the problems of quantum mechanics, it is necessary to use the human sensory system as the measurement instruments and not imaginary instruments. This is the advancement of human recognition to the microscopic level, to the quantum mechanics level. It can be called quantum epistemology. On the other hand, according to the theories of somatic science, there can be interaction between the human body and the objective environment at the microscopic level or the quantum mechanics level. Therefore, the use of these theories and concepts to study the microscopic relationship between man and the environment is microscopic view of the concept of man and nature. III. SOMATIC SCIENCE IS THE STUDY OF THE FUNCTION STATES OF THE SYSTEMS WHICH EXIST BETWEEN THE COMPLEX GIANT SYSTEM OF THE HUMAN BODY AND ITS OBJECTIVE ENVIRONMENT, THE STRUCTURE OF THE SYSTEMS AND THE FUNCTIONS (BEHAVIORAL EFFECTS ) Somatic science can use the theories and methods of system sciences to describe the basic characteristics of the complex giant system of the human body, which are the functional states manifested by the human body within a certain period of time. Human functional states are guasistable states. They are stable states which correspond to the phase space in which they exist. They can be regulated, one functional state can be entered from another functional state. There are three ways of regulating the human body functional states. One is through material or energy exchange with the external world. The second is information exchange with the outside world. The third is the effect of its own consciousness., which is an extremely important method. Actually, Chinese medicine symptoms, QIGONG and human paranormal abilities are all special functional 5 Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300010002-2 “pa dibeTes ae Da Shahy tad an atta!
a AE SCRE EAE PRS CE Sead RANTS ARID BENS, ane Ince ag ginhe mai Mile calar Pion Re DaR RAERN Pete 6 AERA RIALS BASE EAC Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300010002-2 LN465-92 states of the human body and the behavioral display of their abilities. There are’ many human functional states, and they are manifest in many different behaviors. Also, during QIGONG states and paranormal ability states, there are different strange phenomena and effects. Qur own scientific research has come up with some results: 1. Research into the description of the special characteristics of human body functional states. Professor Yu Hefeng of the Space Medical Engineering Institute used multiple dimensional data analysis methods to combine multiple item biological index variables into changing points which can represent the entire human body system. These were located at the multiple dimensional phase spaces, or target points and target loops, formed at the various variables. He discovered the individual target points and target loops of the waking, sleeping, alert and Qigong functional states. He was the first to use system science theories to describe the characteristics of the different functional states of he human body. Because the human body is a complex giant system, this method is still just a first step, and experience, multiple factors, quantitative and qualitative methods must be combined in ways to establish a description of the characteristics of the functional states of the human body. 2. There has been a great deal of research into the microscopic physiological and biochemical changes during the various functional states of the human body. The physiological and biochemical changes during the QIGONG state and human paranormal ability state in such indexes as EEGs, skin temperature, skin resistance, nerve current, blood pressure, and pulse rates have been measured, as well as the pattern of changes in these indexes and their physiological mechanisms. However, there should still be even more thorough research. 3. Research into the laws, governing changes in the human body functional states and research to _ locate the special characteristic variables of the human functional states and the control variables are very important. If these are discovered, man can then freely enter a QIGONG state or a human paranornal ability state. Although research into training in QIGONG and work on causing persons to have paranormal abilities has made important progress, we still have not found the scientific characteristic variables and the control variables. 4. These are all studies into the functional states of the human body itself, but what about the behavioral effects on the relationship with the outside world of these various functional states, and what changes are generated by the functions (behavior and effects) during these different functional states of this giant system of the human body? ¥e first emphasized phenomenological research, using scientific methods to determine the facts and accumulate objective facts. These can be divided into the major categories given below: A. ESP: (1), Recognizing words by paranormal abilities. (2), seeing 6 Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300010002-2 er el rac AT A TTS
ope kDa hana Laguna ioscan VaS tabi Sele SONA oh EN Vi et be HERE MEC bate a St caer ata eal ra nD aaa a aan ae ade Te AE EN A a ed Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300010002-2 LN465-92 through solid objects, seeing through human bodies and seeing through layers of earth. (3), mental telepathy. (4), recognizing residual information. (5), recognizing magnetic fields. B. PK: Moving the hands of a clock, moving the pen of a recorder, piezoelectric effects. C. Paranormal transmission through the walls of a container. D Paranormal returning to an original state. E Paranormal writing. F. Paranormal breaking of a eonnection. G Paranormal diagnosis of ailments. IV. THEORIES AND HYPOTHESES It is presently difficult or even impossible to explain these phenomena using modern science. China’s science workers have also attempted to make a number of theoretical explorations. Up to the present time, they have not yet been able to determine any theory. Professors Xu Lanxu and Ruan Yingchao of Heilongjiang University explored the information carrier in paranormal word recognition and paranormal seeing through solid objects. They designed a complete set of strict optical experiments. They demonstrated that the information carriers in paranormal vision obey the laws of reflection and refraction, that they have the nature of horizontal waves, and obey the laws of polarization. Therefore, they deduced that the carriers were electromagnetic waves. The frequencies were similar to a4 portion which falls into the visible light range. However this does not indicate that human paranormal vision information is just visible light. Visible light is only a portion of the carrier frequency range. It has characteristics of electromagnetic waves and cannot be distinguished from the specific frequency light waves corresponding to the object viewed, and what those with paranormal abilities see is the light waves corresponding to the wave length of the object viewed. The author believes the hypothesis that human paranornal ability to see through solid objects is the equivalent to a type of “biological super sensitive (very weak light) sensory organs". That they are light sensitive and have selective discrimination capability. That they form three dimensional “sensing arrays” from different parts of the body. The author believes that paranormal functions during paranormal vision continuously radiates energy out of the body. What the connection is between this energy and the information carriers is worthwhile doing thorough research into. As for paranormal kinesis and breaking through wall barriers, there are also a great number of theories to explain these phenomena. This is even more difficult to explain. (1). Professor Lin Shuhuang of the Beijing Normal College proposed the hypothesis of “paranormal states". Those with paranormal abilities can cause some 7 Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300010002-2