The sixth manifestation of the largeness of philosophy is the understanding of consciousness. The human brain is a black box, consciousness is the function of the brain. The human brain and consciousness are the most complex system. My mind flies to edge of the universe faster than the speed of light. The brain is a black box, but it can be studied by the expression of the black box. The expression of the black box is consciousness, which includes knowledge, emotion and will, etc. All science, art and religion are products of consciousness and objects of philosophical research.
The seventh and the most important expression of the largeness of philosophy is to look at oneself. The study of consciousness is not equal to the study of oneself, it can be the study of other people's consciousness. "Philosophy is reflective." Collingwood said, "The philosophic mind does not simply consider an object. When it thinks about any object, it is always thinking about its own thoughts about that object. Philosophy may therefore also be called thought of the second order, thought of thought."[8]
We often refer to the subjective world and the objective world. What is the relationship between these two worlds? It is not a relationship of separating from each other, but a dialectical unity relationship: the subjective world is a part of the objective world, and the objective world is also a part of the subjective world.[9] So the world studied by scientists is imcomplete. Only philosophers can see the whole world. Because scientists only know to see the world, only philosopher know to see himself at the same time when seeing the world, know that there is subjective element in the understanding of the world. It is not the hardest to know the universe, the hardest part is knowing yourself. So science can never replace philosophy, the core problem of philosophy is the relationship between matter and consciousness. Scientists cannot explain many paradoxes or understand dialectical logic without seeing themselves. Many disciplines of science are based on axioms that can only be explained when we see ourselves with philosophical eyes.
In short, philosophy has the largest scope of research, so it can provide people with the most complete world outlook and the most rational belief, and give people the feeling of suddenly enlightened when they climb up and look far. What's more, it is only philosophy that can provide the ultimate standard of truth and the ultimate standard of value.
After many entrepreneurs and artists have struggled in their own fields for a long time, they often change their world outlook, have some philosophical reflection and obtain or hope to obtain some grand and abstract truths. But most people's reflections are not thorough, rigorous and often contradictory. It is the philosopher's job to reflect most thoroughly, to criticize constantly, to find the most abstract and thorough theory.
6. CONCLUSION
Philosophy, which deals with the commonality of all things, is the most abstract rational idea or theory. Science is concrete because it is divided into many disciplines. The theories in each branch of science are abstractions of concrete things, but science does not aspire to put them all together and find out what they all have in common. So compared with philosophy, science are concrete theories of concrete problems.