為什麼我賦予蛇這樣一種靈魂？～維根斯坦

只是你應記住：蛇的靈魂，獅子的靈魂，也就是「你的」靈魂。因為唯有透過你自己，你才有可能知道靈魂是什麼。

現在的問題是，為什麼我賦予蛇這樣一種靈魂？

答案只能在於一種身心平行論，那就是：如果我具有蛇的模樣，並且做牠所做的，那我也將是如此這般。

蛇如此，大象、蒼蠅、馬蜂也一樣。

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這是否就是人們何以總是相信有「一種」為世界所共有的精神這個謎的答案？

如果有這樣一種精神，那它當然也會是無生命的事物所共有。

～維根斯坦（1889-1951），《筆記: 1914-1916》1916.10.17.

Only remember that the spirit of the snake, of the lion, is YOUR spirit. For it is only from yourself that you are acquainted with spirit at all.

Now of course the question is why I have given a snake just this spirit.

And the answer to this can only lie in the psycho-physical parallelism: If I were to look like the snake and to do what it does then I should be such-and-such.

The same with the elephant, with the fly, with the wasp.

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Is this the solution of the puzzle why men have always believed that there was ONE spirit common to the whole world?

And in that case it would, of course, also be common to lifeless things too.

～Ludwig Wittgenstein（1889-1951），《Notebooks: 1914-1916》1916.10.17.