Our Inherently Controversial Human Nature - and How We Should Hack It

By Imre Major

Human induced climate change, overuse of natural resources, overwhelming amount of waste and pollution, gender inequality, elevated stress levels, flood of fake news. All these have a lot to do with our controversial human nature and how our race has formed, besides making our life more difficult and less sustainable.

You are to see the controversial process of how we began to become the only highly intelligent species, how widespread is our impact on our environment and why we are inching ahead to the point where extinction will be an issue to deal with. This book provides an original context of the links to our roots and hints at what we should do. It offers a solution to the seven decade-old Fermi paradox and answers the eternal question of meaning and importance of happiness.

It is easy to get the idea. Accepting the conclusions might be a harder task. The real challenge is making a change. Are you ready to start seeing the whole picture?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Release date: Aug 18, 2023
• ISBN: 9781398477889

Imre Major

Imre Major, 46, father of two, is a Hungarian economist with a degree in law. During his professional career he has worked mostly in the telecommunications, plastic processing and IT industries. He is an experienced sailor in love with Lake Balaton, an average driver and a photographer, a weak chess player and a beginner in Japanese jodo. He is usually referred to as the person who possesses the most pieces of irrelevant information. Most of the time, Imre goes his own way independently of the expectations or at times against them. He then tries to cope with the arising problems he causes himself and lives with the problems he causes others. Ten years ago, he started to understand and explore the way he thinks and as a result he now sees the problems the human race inflicts on itself and the reasons and patterns behind this behaviour. This is his first book; kindly read it with an open mind. It is easy to understand; however, most probably it is much harder to accept the impacts we cause to ourselves, or the urgent necessity to change our own behaviour. In future books, he plans to further explore the definitions related to life and human nature he uses. Imre believes these definitions to be original and positively applicable.

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About the Author

Imre Major, 46, father of two, is a Hungarian economist with a degree in law. During his professional career he has worked mostly in the telecommunications, plastic processing and IT industries. He is an experienced sailor in love with Lake Balaton, an average driver and a photographer, a weak chess player and a beginner in Japanese jodo. He is usually referred to as the person who possesses the most pieces of irrelevant information.

Most of the time, Imre goes his own way independently of the expectations or at times against them. He then tries to cope with the arising problems he causes himself and lives with the problems he causes others. Ten years ago, he started to understand and explore the way he thinks and as a result he now sees the problems the human race inflicts on itself and the reasons and patterns behind this behaviour.

This is his first book; kindly read it with an open mind. It is easy to understand; however, most probably it is much harder to accept the impacts we cause to ourselves, or the urgent necessity to change our own behaviour. In future books, he plans to further explore the definitions related to life and human nature he uses. Imre believes these definitions to be original and positively applicable.

Dedication

To my children, hoping that they will face their own challenges instead of the problems caused by

the preceding generations.

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Acknowledgement

Grateful to my parents, my brother and my three really good friends and their families for encouraging and supporting me to pursue many of my weird ideas.

Special thanks to Robert Mallett for preliminary editing and providing valuable feedback.

Preface

Normally, we do not remember the days and months before and after our birth. However, this period has had a great influence on our lives. We inherit much from our close and even our distant ancestors, even if we do not actually know them in person. The same applies to us as a species given that we have little or no information on our origins or on our evolution into Homo Sapiens. Our evolution has been a long process, and we are compelled to live with our ancestral inheritance while barely recognising what precisely it is that we inherited.

We have constructed our societies and legislatures without reliable precedent. Simultaneously, the processes and routines that we have inherited from our predecessors are not applicable in the modern environment we created, as our way of thinking remains linked to our roots. Our economy changes faster than our regulatory bodies and society as a whole can adapt to. Likewise, we change our environment far more quickly than we can ever hope to manage successfully. All these factors influence our life, our planning, our thinking and our decision making to a significant extent. The result is a mismatch that makes our lives harder and similarly affects our personal lives to a level we are not even aware of. This book aims to unveil these mismatches, their origins, how our lives and our environments have changed, the dynamic relationship between the mismatches and our lives and how we should address them.

Most of the mismatches originate in the process whereby we evolved into a highly intelligent species, with the fundamental mismatch being the way in which we still apply more or less intelligent methods instead of highly intelligent ones. This study aims to demonstrate how our lives are affected, why we are in a precarious situation, why now we face an increasing number of problems despite so many advances in technology, why there are no neat or easy solutions to our problems and what we should do. There is much at stake, including our own existence. While there is insufficient common thinking, planning or decision making, we all belong to the same highly intelligent species and we have all the tools necessary for common thinking, planning and decision making. Our inherently controversial human nature influences our thinking considerably and independently of our best intentions.

Technology is undoubtedly one of our most valuable assets as a