Becoming Human

Zsolt Hermann
1 min readApr 12, 2021

Question from the Internet:

“How did humans become humane?”

Well, the question is, did we become humane yet?

For this, we need to take the definition for “human” unique, empirical natural scientists give us, who explain that the word “human” — considering its Hebrew translation “Adam” — comes from the expression “similar”.

According to these unique scientists — who have been studying, researching human nature, human behavior in contrast to Nature’s fully integrated, life-giving, life-nurturing system — we become human when we achieve similarity with Nature.

Inherently we are all 100% self-serving, self-justifying, we thrive at accumulating everything only for ourselves mostly at the expense of others. This is not something we did, we are not at fault as Nature’s evolution “created” us with this selfish, egoistic program.

This way — in contrast to all other elements, parts of nature, including other developed primates — we have received the chance to complete our natural evolution consciously, by our own efforts above and against who we are by default.

So we will become truly “humane” when we purposefully, methodically rise above our inherently selfish, egoistic, exploitative nature and become similar to Nature: building selfless, unconditionally serving, mutually responsible, mutually complementing integration with each other.

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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.