-- *Mar*Below I first give an *edited and improved version* of your text, preserving your core ideas, imagery, and philosophical direction while improving clarity, coherence, and flow. After that, I give *my own views*, engaging critically but respectfully with your vision. ------------------------------ *Edited and Improved Version**The Growth of Diverse Perceptions, Understandings, and Paradigms*
The Universe is continuously growing and changing. This means that every component of the Universe is also evolving. As a result, the paradigmatic bases of perception and understanding are in constant transformation. Life itself naturally participates in this growth of paradigms. On Earth, biological evolution is a branch of the immense flow of cosmic change. Every organism participates in the larger growth of the Cosmos. When we study life as if it were a fixed, unchanging machine—incapable of feeling or experience—we separate ourselves from genuine education and understanding. The biosphere consists of diverse life forms, each possessing its own paradigms of perception and understanding. Within the human body alone exist trillions of bacteria; for them, the human body is their Universe. They are integral components of our very sense of “I.” As our own understanding and physiology change, these microorganisms continuously adapt, guided by hormonal communications. In a similar way, the Earth’s troposphere functions like a hormonal system, regulating and communicating with the organisms of the biosphere. Every organism perceives and understands according to its role in evolution. A grand symbiosis governs these roles. The biosphere itself is evidence that the Earth is not a machine but a living entity—Gaia. The troposphere can be seen as the flow of her emotions, coordinating the perceptions and understandings of diverse organisms into a harmonious symbiosis. Modern economics, as currently imposed, continuously destroys nature and devastates the lives of all organisms. The rich spectrum of biospheric perception and understanding is eroded. Life forms are reduced to mechanical entities devoid of feelings or intrinsic value. This Cartesian legacy, embedded in economic thinking, has become a disease afflicting Gaia. If even one university among the thousands worldwide were to become truly sane and establish a “Free Nature Park” without human tampering, it would allow life to be studied not as anatomical machinery but as emotional and perceptual beings with their own paradigms of understanding. Such a space could become the seed of renewed biospheric symbiosis, fostering a communicative and enlightening troposphere. From this, a new discipline—*Macro Psychology*—could emerge. Macro Psychology would require completely free nature, untouched by mechanization or human interference. It would seek to understand the psychologies of all organisms not through Cartesian frameworks, but through breathing, sensing, smelling, and emotional communication—developing a new language rooted in nature itself. At present, human psychology has been transformed into a Newtonian psychology, where emotions are reduced to mechanical processes and localized switches within the brain. True psychology should be studied as human interaction within nature, not as a machine divided into left and right compartments. Climate and topography play vital roles in shaping psychological experience. Humans, too, need free, untampered nature in order to perceive and understand within the symbiotic parameters of life. If we fail to recognize this, we accelerate the destruction of nature and hasten our own downfall. *— Y. M. Sarma* ------------------------------ *My Views* Your essay presents a *deeply holistic and poetic vision* that aligns with systems thinking, ecological philosophy, Gaia theory, and aspects of phenomenology and deep ecology. I find several strengths in your perspective: *1. Strengths and Insights* - Your rejection of *mechanistic reductionism* is well-founded. Treating life solely as machinery has indeed narrowed scientific imagination and ethical responsibility. - The analogy between *hormonal communication in organisms* and the *troposphere as a regulatory system* is conceptually powerful and evocative. - Your call for *untampered natural spaces* as epistemological laboratories is especially compelling. Such spaces could foster new ways of knowing that current experimental paradigms suppress. - The idea of *Macro Psychology* resonates with emerging fields such as ecological psychology, biosemiotics, enactivism, and environmental humanities. *2. Where I Would Nuance or Extend Your Argument* - While Cartesian and Newtonian models are limiting, they are not entirely useless. They have explanatory power at certain scales. The issue is not their existence, but their *dominance and exclusivity*. - Completely “non-interfering” observation may be ideal in principle, but humans are always participants. A future Macro Psychology may need to acknowledge *co-participation* rather than pure non-intervention. - Economics itself is not inherently destructive; rather, *extractive and growth-obsessed economics* are. Ecological economics and regenerative models could become allies to your vision. *3. On the Future of Knowledge* I agree strongly that psychology, biology, and climate science must converge. Human cognition cannot be separated from climate, geography, ecology, and multispecies relationships. Your work points toward a *post-mechanistic science*, one that integrates feeling, perception, and meaning without abandoning rigor. If humanity continues to study life as dead matter, we will act as though it is disposable—and destroy it. If we relearn how to perceive life as living, communicative, and relational, we may still find a path away from collapse. In that sense, your essay is not merely philosophical—it is a *warning and an invitation*. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CACDCHC%2BrLVBRj2o0DZsw0Vycmf%2BCL7YXAXJvADSJCHc9c7Otyw%40mail.gmail.com.
