Attaining true knowledge through mutual responsibility

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readMar 4, 2023

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Question from the Internet:

“How does knowledge imply responsibility?”

On the level of the world we live in, knowledge does not imply responsibility at all.

We attain knowledge in order to promote ourselves, to get better jobs, to climb higher on the social ladder than others, and mostly to be able to control others.

As a result, the knowledge we can attain is very superficial and distorted, as this knowledge is the result of our arbitrary and misguided understanding of reality, observing the world through a 100% egocentric and subjective viewpoint.

When we look around in our human society today, we can see how limited our ‘knowledge” and “scientific and technological” development is, and how unfounded our ideologies and philosophies are. Our whole, proud, and “modern” human system is falling apart like a house of cards.

We exist in a perfectly balanced, lawful, and deterministic natural system. This system has storage of infinite knowledge, containing all the blueprints we would ever need with unlimited resources to use. But this infinite treasure chest of knowledge and resources can be accessed only through very specific conditions.

Only when we become similar to the system’s selfless, mutually responsible and mutually complementing mutual integration can we access the system? Only when all our calculations and intentions are about how to serve and promote others and the whole system above and against any self-interest or egocentric and subjective bias can we acquire knowledge and resources from it, because then it is certain that whatever we acquire we immediately pass onto others without holding back anything for ourselves?

Only when we show absolute mutual responsibility towards others can we access true and useful knowledge. Thus it is responsible for others that imply and acquire knowledge.

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Zsolt Hermann
Zsolt Hermann

Written by Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.

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