Can human reasoning help us?

Zsolt Hermann
1 min readFeb 2

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Question from the Internet:

“Is human reasoning the surest guide of human destiny?”

As we can see from the state of the world we live in, our human reasoning cannot help us. And this is because our reasoning is based on our 100% egocentric, subjective, and individualistic consciousness and perception of reality.

We reason based on “facts” and “coordinates” that are totally distorted by our self-serving and self-justifying “pain/pleasure” calculations. What we are convinced about is “true” only through our own, limited and distorted point of view.

This is why we can’t agree on anything, we can’t assess and see some “absolute truth”. What we can and try to do is forcefully convince others about our own right and use brainwashing tools and propaganda to manipulate people to see things how we want them to see them.

In order to actually and truly get to know the world we live in and to find common grounds we can all agree on and build on, we have to go “above reason”, developing a truly selfless and altruistic perception of reality that is clean of any inherently egocentric and subjective bias.

Then, together, we can build a unique and unprecedented “collective reasoning” which will safeguard our future development.

For this, we need a unique, purposeful, and practical method, which is available and open to use for all.

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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.