Natural life means living solely dependent
on Nature on whatever it provides for survival of life or its destruction. A
huge number of forms of life exist with sole dependence on the Nature, to
survive on food available naturally whenever atmospheric conditions of
temperature, pressure, moisture, etc are congenial to life, and get destroyed
if the food becomes unavailable or the atmospheric conditions becomes
intolerable.
Life has a naturally built-in protective
mechanism composed of 'instincts' like those of Survival - running to safety on
facing danger, Procreation - producing sexually or asexually own forms of life
for continuing the species on the Earth, and Adaptation - changing the self for
improving chances of survival through adapting to prevailing conditions. The
last instinct causes process of evolution through which different species of
life evolved under different situations.
The process of adaptation is much slower
than that of destruction of life due to inclement environment. Since changes in
atmospheric conditions are fast and many time unpredictable, mass-scale
destruction of life takes place very often. To safeguard against destruction of
a species on the Earth, the Nature adopts the strategy of producing life forms
of every species in huge numbers, so as to save at least a few from mass-scale
destruction to keep the existing life-forms in existence. Thus, natural life
undergoes mass-scale production and destruction.
Up to this point, life remains natural but
this didn't prove enough. Process of evolution caused development of intellect
in some forms of life under some specific situations. The first use of
intellect has been walking on two legs to make two arms free for working. Thus,
there evolved the human form of life. Working with arms and hands made humans
gradually more and more independent from the Nature, which we call the human
life.
Next step towards modern human life was
seeded by some humans deciding to settle at fixed places for years after years.
This spurred a series of activities towards development of modern human
civilization. Production of foods through agriculture, protective clothes for
covering body, and construction of shelters for safety from dangers of
aggressive atmospheric conditions and wild forms of life were the first three
steps humans took for becoming independent from extremities of the Nature. This
way of life is the beginning of the modern human life.
Objective of being independent from Nature
was not to oppose or tame the Nature, but making changes in the self keeping in
tune with natural conditions. Therefore, the Nature in its own laws remains
part and parcel of human life. Humanity makes only a negligibly tiny fragment
of the Cosmos governed by the laws of Nature. Hence, to keep the cosmic
activities undisturbed, laws of nature must remain undisturbed. This is why I call
the human life as superset of natural life.
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