-- *Mar*Certainly. Below is a *carefully edited version* of your original essay *“Naked Thoughts”* by YM Sarma. The goal of this edit is to:
- Improve *clarity and readability* - Maintain the *philosophical tone and depth* - Introduce *paragraph structure* and *transitions* - Preserve your *unique voice and original insights* ------------------------------ *Naked Thoughts* *By YM Sarma (Edited Version)* There was a time when the human organism was governed entirely by the sense of smell. It could distinguish among more than 10,000 different scents. Human existence and action were part of the air itself. Smell was not just sensory—it was emotional, relational, and social. It conveyed friendliness, hostility, love, indifference. There was no need for analysis. The organism responded instantly and instinctively. These responses, if they can be called thoughts, were not private. They were naked. They belonged not to the individual, but to nature, to the shared environment. In that ancient time, privacy as we understand it today was unnatural. Smell evoked immediate reaction. There was no delay, no filter. Today, the organ that still leads us to such thoughtless, instinctive response is the amygdala—the ancient seat of emotion. It is the part of us that lashes out, that reacts without deliberation. Once governed by smells, it now struggles under the domination of the analytical brain. The gradual evolution of the neocortex—the part of the brain responsible for logic, language, and analysis—shifted our inner world. Thoughts were pulled from the air and pushed into private mental space. Our fears and desires were no longer external; they retreated inward, into isolated cocoons. We lost the ability to "smell" one another’s thoughts. We began using words instead. But language comes with a built-in distortion. Words are never neutral. They are selected, adjusted, censored. You may feel anger and yet express happiness. Or feel joy and still insist you're "fine." Language becomes a performance. Thoughts become masks. Eventually, we lose touch with what we truly feel. We begin to deceive not only others, but ourselves. Hence, so many “U-turn artists” among us—people whose emotions and reasoning constantly collide, whose beliefs swing unpredictably. Inside us, the amygdala and the cortex are in constant conflict. We may passionately believe in something, yet the analytical brain tells us to doubt it. The cortex wages war on conviction. And yet the amygdala continues to inject emotion into that very analysis. The result? Confusion. Fear. An undercurrent of anxiety we cannot name. Many of these emotional convictions we carry are never expressed. We call them “sacred.” Not because they are divine, but because we are afraid to analyze them. We keep them locked inside. They control us, silently. Sometimes, we take pleasure in irrationality—even cruelty—because we cannot reconcile these internal contradictions. And when reason fails to justify them, we resort to ridicule, sarcasm, even outright insult. We tie ourselves in psychological knots. All enjoyment is emotional. Analysis kills enjoyment. When you’re truly experiencing something, you stop analyzing. And when you analyze, you step outside the experience. This is the paradox we live with. In science too, this paradox persists. Analytical thinking has led to what might be called *dogmatic mechanization*. Science insists on detachment. Emotions must be eliminated for objectivity to be achieved. But we cannot surgically remove the amygdala. So we fight it. We suppress emotion in the pursuit of so-called unbiased analysis. Yet even that analysis is never truly neutral. Thanks to quantum physics, we now know that observation changes reality. Our consciousness collapses particles from wave to matter. But observation is not mechanical—it is human. It is never without feeling. Every act of noticing is contaminated by our emotions, by our primal brain. The amygdala, it seems, is staging a return. It is not some outdated relic—it is fundamental. It lives at the core of our being, and perhaps even at the core of the universe. Smell. Music. Emotion. All these are air-borne. Could thoughts be air-borne too? Are there thought waves—naked, unspoken, unfiltered by the cortex? Do we sometimes experience them without knowing? Rationality today is increasingly equated with obedience—to machines, to algorithms, to systems. Our organs are becoming redundant. Nature is intolerable to us unless modified. We can't leave a forest untouched. We must genetically alter, optimize, control. We live under machine occupation. And we celebrate it. Dr. Jekyll is in retreat. ------------------------------ *End* Would you like a *PDF or printable format* of this edited version? Or would you prefer this adapted into a *speech* or *presentation*? -- 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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