Abstract
Self-protection is the basic requirement in undisturbed nature. Resistance to the impact of a changing environment is a natural phenomenon and is part of the inbuilt system in all forms of life. The lower the availability of oxygen, the higher the carrying capacity of the oxygen and supporting multiorgan system is. Various kinds of predictable and measurable variations in the natural environment are known and realized by all forms of life. These variations, acute or chronic in nature, have both deleterious and beneficial (warning) impacts on life processes realized from scientific studies in the past.
Evidence indicates that the impact of a high altitude condition such as hypoxia is not exempt from this law of nature. Both acute and chronic hypoxia are known to trigger the dormant cells in the central nervous system. It is interesting to note that the basic five senses in animal systems are the nature-provided preliminary tools in all of us to predict, recognize, and evaluate the extent to which environmental changes do have an impact on our life. Man-made scientific tools provide fine tuning, but with the delay in responding, by that time much of the damage is already realized. Apart from that, inbuilt instincts (sixth sense) play a major role in the process of adjustment, acclimatization, and adaptation. Many lowlanders have experienced several scientifically unexplainable events. The life system is provided with an inbuilt mechanism to either activate or deactivate the basic instincts.
We can calculate with experience minute changes in the living environment (highlanders) or when exposed to new environmental conditions (lowlanders exposed to high altitude conditions) with fairly good precision and accuracy, leading to the measurement of uncertainties. Of late, modern humans, with logical conclusions, have depended on scientific tools to gather data for understanding; in contrast, animals without any such tools living in harmony with nature are more precise, with the least uncertainty to quickly realize changes in the environment. That is the basic law of protection. I have made an effort to develop a hypothesis that provides models for understanding our inbuilt nature, providing physical, instinct driven, spiritually realized (unbiased natural behavior), and neurologically experienced basic senses. The proposed hypothesis signifies the importance of living in harmony with nature, acting on the instant instincts, and realizing the limits that vary from person to person.