We need to learn selfless, mutually complementing cooperation from Nature

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readMay 17, 2022

Question from the Internet:

“What is a cooperative that you know and identify their implementation of cooperative principles?”

If we want to find the best “cooperative” that is successful and sustainable, then we have to look past any human organization or achievement.

After all, what is a better “cooperative” than Nature’s closed, mutually integrated and mutually complementing living systems that create and sustain life?

Moreover, it is not only that we should wonder about how Nature is cooperating and sustaining that cooperation. If we do not learn from Nature how to do this, how to create and sustain life as a result of selfless, mutually responsible and mutually complementing mutual integration in human society, we will simply not survive.

While Nature exists and develops solely for creating and sustaining life, humanity, by default, exists only to destroy and suffocate life as a result of our inherently cancer-like internal software — that is 100% self-serving, self-justifying and exploitative.

Why did perfect Nature with its intelligent, deterministic evolution create a cancer-like human being (after all, we are not responsible for the original software we are installed with)?!

In order to give us the free choice and conscious ability to complete our human development and to aspire to and achieve a Nature-like mutual integration and compatibility with Nature’s system by our own efforts, above and against our original instincts and behaviour.

It is this conscious self-change and self-development to achieve similarity and compatibility with Nature that will raise us to the “truly Human” level of evolution.

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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.