Humanity should live a truly Human life

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readOct 28, 2022

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Question from the Internet:

“I think humanity should live. Does anyone else agree?”

I fully agree with you. Moreover, we have the strongest possible supporter in this, as Nature’s evolution also wants humanity to live and prosper, so we could finally fulfil our unique, evolutionary human purpose in the system.

But in order for humanity to survive — as right now, it seems that we are inevitably marching towards total self-destruction — we would need to learn and understand what life truly is, what the meaning and purpose of Human life are, so we could start living.

So far — despite the millennia-long human development and our “proud” achievements — we haven’t lived a truly Human life; we have lived a “humanoid” life with the potential to become “truly Human”.

The life we have been living can be compared to the life of single-cell organisms that try to survive and succeed at each other’s expense. Our problem is that these egocentric, subjective, individualistic “single-cells” are actually integral parts of the same body.

Thus the more our egocentric, individualistic and exploitative nature grew and intensified, the more cancer-like we have become, culminating in today’s totally hedonistic, narcissistic, excessively overconsuming society that is ready to exterminate itself for the slightest amount of selfish pleasure.

Truly Human life is lived through a multi-cellular, selfless and altruistic, mutually responsible, and mutually complementing Human organism, with an unprecedented collective consciousness. This collective consciousness can elevate our sense of existence and perception of reality beyond the egocentric and subjective coordinates of time and space.

Our meaning of life is to build and experience this “collective existence” while still feeling ourselves in our present “bodies and in this world”. And by becoming this collective Human organism above and against our egocentric, subjective and individualistic origins, we also fulfil our evolutionary Human purpose: to become Nature’s only conscious, integrated and at the same time independent observers and equal partners.

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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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