Does our survival reflex drive us to simply survive?

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readJan 9, 2023

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Question from the Internet:

“Do humans have an instinct to continue living because life is all we know?”

If this was the case, simply surviving for the sake of physical survival, we would not be any different from animals.

But we are human beings.

Unbeknown to most people, we have a much deeper driver for our survival reflex and for everything we do.

We have a unique and unparalleled evolutionary purpose in Nature’s system. And this purpose is coded in us, and this purpose awakens in us the recurring and ever-intensifying question about the meaning and purpose of life.

Until now, most of us would have ignored this question or found some superficial explanation or identify one of our physical or social desires — for food, sex, family, wealth, power, fame, or knowledge — with life’s purpose.

But as our usual physical life started to fall apart, as our consumerist physical “Matrix” started glitching, and as even when we get much more than we have and still feel empty, frustrated, and depressed, this deep and so far dormant desire to get to know and fulfill our evolutionary purpose is exploding in us with elementary force.

Our generation is the first one where masses of people are knowingly or unknowingly searching for some meaning or purpose, and these masses need an answer without which we will self-destruct on a global scale.

Fortunately, we also have the necessary, unique, purposeful, and practical method that can help us understand and viscerally feel this purpose and methodically prepare ourselves for it.

Human beings are not here to simply survive day to day while seemingly catering to their necessities. Human beings are born in order to learn why they are humans, what their actual and very important role is in Nature’s system, and how to reach that purpose.

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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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