Man's initial wisdom comes from imitating the things around him. 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 fake imitation. If a wrong imitation succeeds unexpectedly, this mistake will become the next imitation object. Therefore, the initial wisdom of human beings is chasing phenomena, which is gradually produced in the process of imitating phenomena.
It leads to a qualitative leap in human wisdom, thus forming an essential difference from other animals in understanding, that is, 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.
In this way, the progress of human cognition has changed from imitating successful mistakes to systematic logical analysis, thus greatly improving the efficiency and speed of human cognition.
However, the rational world is composed of rigid concepts. When people's knowledge goes beyond the macro scope and becomes more and more sophisticated, they unexpectedly find that there is a huge difference between the rational world of machinery and the organic real world, and there are many new phenomena that cannot be explained by classical mechanics.
For example, the speed of macroscopic objects has an upper limit and cannot exceed the speed of light; However, the speed of microscopic particles has a lower limit, and there are no absolutely stationary particles.
For example, not only the movement of matter is limited by space, but matter can also affect the distribution of space in turn.
Therefore, human understanding is no longer satisfied with the simple abstraction of phenomena, but begins to reconstruct phenomena. By constructing the theoretical world, human beings make theory become an isomorphic system, thus indirectly understanding nature.
At this time, the progress of human cognition depends on the construction of isomorphic system, which makes human cognition have greater subjective initiative.
In a word, human wisdom comes from human cognitive activities and begins with imitation. After that, human wisdom has made a qualitative leap in the process of abstraction and reconstruction, forming a higher wisdom that is different from other animals.
Therefore, the essence of wisdom is to get rid of the shackles of phenomena and understand nature in its own unique way, thus making human understanding more efficient.