-- *Mar*Here is an edited and refined version of your essay, preserving your core ideas while improving clarity, flow, and coherence. ------------------------------ The Growth of Natural Endowments
You are a universe composed of octillions of cells, along with bacteria whose numbers even exceed your own cells. Exercise makes you strong and healthy because every cell and every bacterium performs its symbiotic nano-role. Together, they generate strength and health for their universe — you. Similarly, in a completely free and healthy natural world, where there is no human tampering, every organism participates in a vast symbiotic activity. Each contributes to the strength of the whole, making forests, ecosystems, and the biosphere healthy and resilient. Evolution, in such freedom, becomes the process of developing new natural endowments in every organism, deepening symbiosis and strengthening life. The fundamental truth becomes clear: every organism is a limb of nature. When symbiosis flourishes, even bacteria that cause disease can become balanced participants in the whole. In such harmony, the need for antibiotics — which destroy both beneficial and harmful bacteria — would diminish. If human interference had not disrupted nature, organisms might have continued developing new endowments, expanding their perception and understanding. In a truly free and healthy nature, no organism is inherently an enemy of another. As perception expands, the biosphere itself could be understood as a single living organism — just as you are a symbiotic assembly of countless cells and microbes. Technology may allow space travel, but there is another form of expansion — the expansion of perception and understanding. By engaging all our faculties in an untampered natural world, evolution may cultivate new capacities within us. Perhaps one day humans may learn to perceive not only through electromagnetism — which underlies much of our sensory experience — but through deeper dimensions of reality. This may sound like imaginative speculation. Science fiction tells stories of heroes entering black holes and returning transformed. Yet the idea that free evolution fosters new capacities is not mere fantasy. Throughout evolutionary history, organisms have developed astonishing abilities — sight, flight, echolocation, photosynthesis. What seems supernatural today may simply be unrealized biological potential. Where nature is allowed to flourish, organisms grow stronger and healthier. Evolution has repeatedly shown its power to generate complexity and new forms of capability. If we allow nature freedom from destructive interference, who can say what further capacities might emerge? Our modern education system often distances us from this living reality. The idea that humans could meaningfully communicate with other organisms is frequently dismissed. Yet there exists an emotional and ecological language connecting all beings within the biosphere. Nature is the macro-body, and we are its limbs. When we poison soil and water and destroy landscapes, we weaken ourselves. Increasing dependence on technologies that damage ecosystems undermines the long-term vitality of natural evolution. The pressing question is this: how can we persuade even one university to establish a truly protected nature park — a place free from tampering — so that nature itself may become the teacher? Such an education would not merely inform the intellect; it would cultivate health, strength, and a deeper understanding of our place within the living whole. — YM Sarma ------------------------------ My Views Your essay carries a powerful ecological intuition: that humans are not separate from nature but expressions of it. Modern biology strongly supports parts of your vision. For example: - The human microbiome is essential to immunity, digestion, and even mental health. - Ecosystems function through complex networks of symbiosis and interdependence. - Biodiversity increases resilience and stability. Where I would gently differ is in two areas: 1. *“No organism is an enemy of another.”* In ecology, predation, competition, and parasitism are also natural processes. They are not moral evils but regulatory mechanisms that maintain balance. Harmony in nature includes tension and struggle — not the absence of them. 2. *Evolution creating “supernatural powers.”* Evolution does generate remarkable new abilities, but always within the constraints of physics and biology. While expanded perception is possible (as seen in species that detect ultraviolet light, magnetic fields, etc.), forces like gravity or the strong nuclear force becoming biological powers in humans would contradict current scientific understanding. That said, metaphorically, your idea expresses humanity’s potential for deeper awareness. Your most compelling idea, in my view, is educational reform: creating spaces where students learn directly from functioning ecosystems. This aligns with: - Field biology programs - Rewilding initiatives - Forest schools - Ecological restoration campuses A university nature reserve used as a living laboratory is not utopian — it is practical and already exists in some places. Expanding that model is achievable. In summary, your essay is visionary and philosophical rather than strictly scientific — and that is its strength. It calls for humility, ecological awareness, and reverence for evolutionary processes. With grounding in scientific realism and careful distinction between metaphor and literal claim, your ideas could become even more persuasive. If you would like, I can also help you refine this into a version suitable for publication in an environmental journal or university newsletter. -- 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]. 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