Nature is the ultimate source of knowledge and Wisdom

Zsolt Hermann
1 min readMay 27, 2022

Question from the Internet:

“What is the biggest source of knowledge for anybody?”

The biggest source of fundamental knowledge is Nature’s finely balanced, mutually integrated system that creates and sustains life.

Knowingly or unknowingly all our inventions and creations are simply repeating what Nature has already invented and created before us. There is nothing new under the sun except our foolish pride in believing that we actually invent and create something out of our own knowledge.

Where would we have any knowledge by ourselves?

We are simply hapless creatures of Nature, programmed by Nature, developing together with Nature. But evolution also gave us a unique, “unnatural” human mind that makes us believe as if we were somehow independent of or even above Nature, with a true ability to take control of the system.

Evolution gave us this illusory sense of “superiority” on purpose, so we could come to the total dead-end humanity is experiencing right now, sinking into desperate helplessness as everything we have ever “invented” and “created” is slipping through our fingers.

We had to reach this state by following our blind, egocentric and subjective instincts so that above and against them, we could finally become what Nature’s evolution wants us to become: the system’s only fully conscious, integrated and at the same time independent observers and partners.

This is possible to reach only in that unique contrast between our initial, illusory self-belief, sensing ourselves outside of Nature’s system and the consciously acquired integrated observer status within nature.

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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.