Zsolt Hermann
2 min readJan 4, 2022

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Thank you for your response.

I think we need to look at our human condition as a process, a continuum.

Obviously, humans are born from Nature, we have the same root as chimpanzees, orangutans, and other developed primates and we started from the same Natural conditions.

So in our basic “software” obviously we have the same tendencies, instincts as the rest of Nature — which is towards mutual integration, cooperation, staying within the general balance, and homeostasis.

But in addition, humans have at least 2 uniqueness compared to other developed primates: we have our self-oriented, subjective, individualistic tendency that has been gradually pulling us out of the Natural integration cooperation in order to pursue selfish, individualistic, and increasingly exploitative activities.

And we also have a unique human intellect that is capable of recognizing our difference from Nature, even recognizing critically that our human uniqueness — while driving our extraordinary development — also brings us to the brink of self-destruction as we have grown completely incompatible with Nature by now.

This makes sense only when we also accept and verify that evolution is not something random, but it is an “intelligent”, deterministic process, purposefully creating is with the increasingly self-destructive ego and also giving us the ability to recognize and correct it.

This is purposeful since it leads to human beings learning and fulfilling their unique evolutionary role, purpose.

For this, to recognize this, to make sense of this, and to be able to adapt ourselves to evolution we need the right, but unique and purposeful education in order to change ourselves, in order to take our development into our own hands in accordance to Nature — above and against our opposition to Nature. This will give us the unique duality, comparative research, ability to become what Nature wants us to become.

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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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