The best I could do would be to say that if one casts off everything, absolutely everything, from human thought, what emerges thereafter in one’s soul – that indefinable something that one apprehends … that [is] nature.

MASANOBU FUKUOKA

Plants and animals, including birds and fishes, use their sense organs to experience reality as it is. They don’t think. Hence they are one with the nature, and don’t try to mimic nature.  In fact, they are nature.

Humans, on the other hand, have a unique problem. We have allowed our thoughts to become our master, and in the process have made the sense organs subordinated to our thoughts.

The sense organs provide the gateway for our connection and integration with nature and its infinite intelligence, not our thoughts.  

Human thoughts are inherently fragmented. They divide, differentiate, and discriminate. They take us away from nature and its infinite intelligence. This has resulted in the human species “thinking” we are separate from nature. This thinking of separateness is an “illusion” and has caused humans to compete with nature with a view to conquer her by plundering, pillaging and destroying every aspect of nature.

This is evident in the social structures and systems we have created that are inherently extractive and destructive of nature. We’ve all, willy-nilly thought ourselves into the zero-sum game, where one participant’s gain comes at the loss of the other participants.

Humans have become completely divorced from the infinite natural intelligence. What we call as human intelligence is indeed unnatural, for it is based on our thoughts. In fact, the human intelligence is the real artificial intelligence. The irony here is that the artificial human intelligence is producing machines that try to mimic human behavior and calling it A.I.!

When humans reclaim our senses and learn the art of not letting our thoughts interfere by gaining mastery over our thoughts, we will realize that we are nature and not separate from it. Until then, the infinite intelligence of nature will keep teaching us lessons, albeit harsh ones, till we become aware that nature’s intelligence is infinitely greater than the sum of the combined artificial human intelligence.