Unique turning point in Human evolution

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readAug 24, 2024

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Question from the Internet:

What will I have to become to change the world for good?

My answer:

In order to change the world for good, we all have to become like “healthy cells” in the body.

Most people heard and accepted that we evolved into a globally integrated and mutually interdependent world. Even small, seemingly inconsequential events in a faraway place can influence the whole world.

We might have different goals and plans, but how the world changes changes our lives whether we want it or not, whether we agree or not.

In fact, just like the rest of nature, humanity is also a single intertwined organism where all individuals are, in effect, like individual cells of the same body. Moreover, humanity is just one organ of the whole natural organism that encompasses the known Universe.

However, while in the rest of nature, this mutual interdependence and integration is instinctively felt by all elements, human beings inherently sense themselves as independent, unique, and “standalone” beings with individual free choice and action.

This “misunderstanding” is “programmed” in us purposefully by evolution. This gives us a certain “independence” and an outsider” viewpoint on the system. This way, as if we were researchers who can observe and study the system “independently from the outside,” we can learn the system and build our own perception and understanding of it.

Humanity has been living in an artificial bubble for thousands of years, doing this unique, subjective research of nature while we also try to understand ourselves, who we are, and what our purpose is in the system.

Our generation has reached a unique tipping point, where the true globality and integrality of the system have “fallen on us” as if unexpectedly. In contrast to our long-held belief that we are independent of nature and each other and we can do whatever we want, suddenly, we find ourselves in a system where all our independence and free choice are taken away from us.

This is a terrible ‘existential crisis” for the human ego that has been driving us for millennia.

Today, a completely new developmental phase starts for humanity. Above and against our original egotistic, selfish, and individualistic worldview and aspiration, we have to learn how to exist and behave like healthy cells in a singular, all-encompassing, and all-powerful natural system.

This unique duality between the original egocentric, subjective, and individualistic perception and the new, gradually and methodically acquired collective and mutual perception of reality gives us our human uniqueness and superiority in the system.

With the help of this duality and contrast, we can become nature’s only integrated — and still independent — inner observers and partners. With the gradually generated and experienced collective Human consciousness and intellect we will merit through our nature-like, fully integrated, and mutually complementing existence and behavior, we will become Nature’s actual thinking and guiding mind.

Only the uniquely dual — original egotistic, individualistic, and subjective versus selfless, altruistic, integrated, and collective — Human consciousness and intellect are capable of achieving this. Achieving this is what evolution demands from our generation.

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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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