ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a survey of the communication systems that evolved on the basis of inner adaptation (IA) in the course of evolution. It explains the tension and the conflicts around IA in the examples of awakeness, sleep, play, laughing and crying. Values come into origin with the development of the noetic system, that is, they come into being after inhibition of animal perception and after the appearance of distantiating from the neurular system, both of which characterize mental acts and the actions of the ego. Values are real, but they are experienced as aspects of the essence of things and persons and not through the perceptual phenomenon transmitted by the neurular outer system. The meaning of life is revealed to man in values and value conflicts. Values are really based on the function of the two inner systems; namely, the noetic as absolute inner system and the neural as symbolic inner system.
