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On Human Potential
And the Central Meme of Life and Evolution
As usual the principle behind these essays is to articulate and share ideas. Luckily my work here doesn’t have to be perfect to do this.
The Collective Actualization of Life’s Potential
It’s a meme central to life, to evolution itself: In every organism there’s an innate impulse towards self-actualization, in coherence with other organisms, leading to emergence and higher forms of more elegantly ordered complexity and consciousness.
“Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less.” Jim Rohn
A seed is a potential tree. Plant it in a nourishing environment, water it well, speak to it lovingly, and it will become a tree. A seed will grow into the greatest, most beautiful tree it can possibly grow into. It will bear as many leaves and fruits as it possibly can. Its environmental conditions can support its unfolding, or hinder it.
