I believe we develop our epistemic being by interrogating our stances and nature as given to us. Developing our epistemic being allows us to understand the human being existing in the space of the cosmos. This does not necessarily reflect present reality, but inserts a thought understanding that first, humans live in nature and are perhaps beings that should co-exist with nature to appreciate the uniquely ordered cosmos and not find superiority and inferiority in existence. Secondly, beyond the understanding of co-existence with nature now we appreciate the thought that whatever exists today is purely a codification of collective human minds.
Only then do we understand that what permeates today is a result of man and it can be changed by man. Once we fully understand the codification of earth, we can trace each invention including philosophy itself. I used to think culture defines my being and therefore my culture is my identity defining my being on earth. I was absolutely correct; however, my failure was overlooking the understanding that culture itself is an evolution of how humans interact with nature to define their being in that nature. Only then did I understand that culture is not static, it is a dynamic interaction between nature and human beings.
This is exactly the thought I address in this piece. My aim is to address two points which appreciate our being in this thing called the universe, and how we co-exist with nature. Further, provide a kick off understanding suggesting the codification of systems we see as inevitable in our being today. The boldness in my assertions have considered that I don’t know everything, or do I suggest that my statements are of omnipotence truth, epistemic humility it is called.
Humans co-exists with nature and are beings in the Universe.
There is a strange under-appreciation of understanding how we as human exist in the space which we are in. The temptation is to accord this under-appreciation to ignorance however that would be narrow. Perhaps, it is better to understand the under-appreciation as due to how we are cognitively developed by the education systems, cultures and norms, and tradition.
These systems teach us how to be, or how we should merely exist as superior beings in the space of the universe. The elasticity of the human mind than curiously evolves and suggests alternatives or maintain what exists. The question which fights this under-appreciation is “As humans created into being, how do we exist and what precisely is our purpose in this perfect balance of the universe?”. Once we interrogate life with this line of question, we gain access to understanding that we are not superior to nature and what exist in it.
Rather, we are part of a perfectly organized cosmos and serve a particular purpose. The power of the human mind to imagine even the mere impossible in nature is perhaps the greatest gift and the greatest curse. A gift which can uniquely contribute to the balance and serve human purpose beyond the requirement. Therefore, our mere understanding of us as human being should be that we are in a space called the universe. In this space we are part of a systemic balance which is given to us. Nature is therefore not an asset or possession of human for utilization, rather, it is part of the systemic balance, and we co-exist in the space of the universe.
Reality is a codification of the elastic human mind, collectively.
Because the human mind can imagine what can be, after a coherent and conscious consideration of what it knows, reality will therefore be what man can imagine or mentally see. This is a curse to mankind for that it can reinterpret the systematic balance between nature and man. A gift for it can propel the being of man and his interpretation of co-existence with nature.
Reality as we experience it is a codification of past mankind invention. In a literal sense, history usually depict how societies evolve and how they utilize human mind to exist in spaces. The upcoming generation is then cognitively developed either to maintain, destroy, or innovative what already exists. This is sufficient food of thought in statements like “anything can change”.
This writing as it exists, it is my own intellectual thought utilizing the gift of human mind to acknowledge the imperative in finding a solid understanding of the relationship between man and nature. In that light, it highlights how mankind builds up small innovative steps which make reality to be what it becomes. This subject only fits to be a food of thought in battles of why we exist or how do we exists? Of course, it is an open-ended thought.
As much argued to the concluding point, a generation holds a doubled edged sword of unity or war. Point of the matter, we are a generation that’s an offspring of war in terms colonialisation, the slave trade, and apartheid. The generational obligation which I see to be more attainable and necessary at this point in time is that of unity. We should be a generation that’s pens down how diamonds can shine from dirt.
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