The Human Limits

We might ask why the civilized embarked on this path of creating a “reality” of their own challenging that of Nature. After all, they are natural beings acting naturally and we would think they would stick to true and tested natural concepts. The author has come to understand the human brain and its two most basic limitations: the first being a physical limitation in the quantity and quality of information it can store; the second is a result of the limitations of its sensory organs in perceiving reality. In simple terms, Nature is infinite while humans are finite. Therefore, humans will never be able to understand Nature and how things work in the universe let alone how the Earth works. Although our brain’s memory is limited in information, the brain can manipulate information and even create it. This is perhaps best demonstrated in how we solve problems. For example, by bringing together two different memories and producing a third that may solve some need. Unfortunately, since memories are limited in information and the process of linking two of them follows no Natural law, the result is an abstract and creative solution that will not necessarily prove to work in the real world.

We must now realize that the structures of the brain and those of reality are quite different. To help us visualize this let us imagine that an understanding of the creative world generated by the human brain comes in the form of a stack of square blocks, with Natural counterparts coming in the form of balls. We might well imagine the blocks of our imagining to tumble and fall if built on reality. When building a square structure on a round reality, it immediately becomes unstable.

According to such logic, most of what humans can conceive of or build will be disconnected from the Natural world and fail. We should rather try our best to follow Nature which inevitably proves more durable than anything we could have created. In whatever we do, we should let Nature set the path because Nature is the final authority on what is right and suitable.

Nature is complex. Humans are, in fact, incapable of grasping its full intricacy. We should have been wise and considered ourselves part and not separated from Earth’s living cycles, the web of life, and its ecosystems. Notions that "humans are at the top of the food chain" and "humans have a superior intelligence" are vocalizations of an ego desperate to ensure humanity’s survival. We are but a link, no better or worse than any other, be it a clump of mud or another species in Earth’s organization of life. The interference of our intellects has fed our egos, leading us astray and blinding us to their consequences.

As we accept the miracle of birth, we should also accept the necessity of death in maintaining this beautiful planet we belong to. If we don’t then dire consequences will follow.