Wisdom is the concept and method of cognition, and a wise person is a person with efficient concept and method.

The initial wisdom of human beings is due to the imitation of things around them. For example, tens of thousands of years ago, primitive people held magic ceremonies in caves to imitate the last successful hunting and pray for their next success.

It is in this magical ceremony that human beings gradually realize the simple causal relationship. In the minds of primitive people, an important belief has gradually sprouted, that is, imitating nature can reproduce nature.

This is the beginning of human understanding. Because the essence of cognition is to establish a unified causal relationship. When did primitive people extend imitation activities to animals? And plants? It gradually formed animal husbandry and planting. As a result, human beings began to settle down, and thus formed human society and its culture.

At this time, the progress of human understanding is very slow, and we can only rely on wrong imitation. If the wrong imitation succeeds unexpectedly, it will be the object of the next imitation. Therefore, the initial wisdom of human beings is chasing phenomena, which is gradually produced in the process of imitating phenomena.

Lead to a leap in human intelligence and compare with other animals? The essential difference in cognition is that human beings have abstract thinking.

At this time, human beings got rid of the shackles of phenomena. They put forward concepts through phenomena and establish their own rational world according to the logical relationship of these concepts.