How can we expand our perception of reality?

Zsolt Hermann
1 min readMay 10, 2022

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Question from the Internet:

“What’s more important, the world views of an individual or the individual’s views of the world?”

I think that the most important thing we need to understand is that by default, we all view and experience the world in a completely egocentric and subjective way. It is not some kind of a fault or mistake, it is simply how we are “built or programmed”.

As a result, we are mostly incapable of understanding and accepting the views of others and this way we are mostly incapable of actually discussing, collectively understanding and solving problems. And this has now become a great problem and danger in the globally integrated and interdependent world we evolved into.

So we need to a unique, purposeful and highly practical method that will teach and allow us to combine our myriads of individual, subjective and egocentric viewpoints and understanding of reality into a single, composite “image” we will all have access to.

Then instead of always looking at things through our original, highly limited and distorted tunnel vision, we will be able to “go around problems, seeing them from multiple, different angles by accessing the views, thoughts and opinions of others as if they were our own.

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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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