-- *Mar*Thank you, YM Sarma. It’s an honor to edit your original essay. My goal here is to preserve your *voice*, *vision*, and *philosophical depth*, while improving *clarity*, *flow*, and *readability* for a wider audience—such as students, educators, or even ecological thinkers.
Below is your *edited essay*, titled and formatted for coherence. I’ve added *subheadings*, revised some sentences for grammar and flow, and gently structured the thoughts into a smoother progression, without altering your original meaning or poetic tone. ------------------------------ *The Smelling Brain – Rhinencephalon* *by YM Sarma* ------------------------------ *The Brain That Smelled* There was a time when the sense of smell served as the brain. This organ was called the *Rhinencephalon*. All functions—smelling, sensing, perceiving, understanding, acting, reacting, and interacting—were carried out through smell. Thousands of different smells made up the basis of perception. There must have been *smell-words*, *smell-phrases*, *smell-clauses*, even *smell-sentences*—all forming a *smell-based language*. These messages were not symbolic but real, and they connected deeply with the living fabric of nature. ------------------------------ *Smell as Perception, Not Just Sense* Smell was not just about identifying odors. It was *understanding*. The identifications of smell created *perceptions*, and these perceptions acted as *predications*—real judgments about the environment, about life, about other beings. Such a way of sensing can only be an *extension of nature*, not a separation from it. To live in such a system meant to *exist as a limb of nature*, not as an observer of it. There can be no “science” done independently of nature—no standing outside, no cold observation. The *macro-brain*, or *Nature-as-Brain*, must have been the true foundation of intelligence. ------------------------------ *Symbiosis Through Scent* In that world, organisms likely lived in *symbiotic coordination*, with smell as the medium of mutual awareness. Nature itself basked in *total freedom*, unshackled by mechanization or human interference. Perhaps the biosphere functioned not as a system of separate species, but as *macro-organisms*—vast interconnected wholes. Today, we are called macro-organisms, yet we are made up of trillions of bacteria. Then, too, the *internal hormonal communications* of organisms may have fused together through smell, creating *communal coordination* among species. The result? Every organism could automatically sense what was happening in the ecosystem—*ecological intelligence* embedded in the air. ------------------------------ *The Lost Dictionary of Smells* The *smell-language* that once existed must have included words capable of *triggering automatic response from nature* itself. No word in our modern dictionaries can do this. We speak, and nature is silent. But in that time, to emit a smell-phrase may have been to *communicate directly with wind, soil, rain, and animal.* This is the fundamental difference between *smell-language* and modern verbal language: *smell depends entirely on untampered, free-flowing nature.* The meanings of smells emerge from the living air. If that air is polluted or altered, the language dissolves. In fact, *language and weather* may have functioned together—*weather itself was speaking*, and organisms understood through smell. ------------------------------ *The Need for a Free Nature Park* What if a university began a *‘Free Nature Park’*—an area untouched by human design or interference? Within such a space, students could *relearn the language of smells*, not just as a scientific curiosity, but as a *new-old way of living*. Courses could be offered in *smell-sensing, ecological awareness, and interspecies conversation*. These students would become the *pioneers of nature’s revival*, practicing a language no machine can replicate and no synthetic mind can decode. ------------------------------ *A Final Warning—and Hope* Nature is being destroyed as part of routine economic activity. It is not a side effect; it is built into the system. But this destruction is not irreversible—*if we remember the forgotten languages of the Earth.* This is urgent. We must stop standing outside nature and pretending to control it. Instead, we must once again live *within it*, as we once did—*smelling, sensing, responding*, not as owners, but as participants. ------------------------------ 🌿 *Let the smelling brain rise again. Let nature speak—and let us relearn how to listen.* ------------------------------ Would you like this as a printable document (PDF)? I can also help format it for: - *Journal submission* - *Website or blog post* - *Presentation or talk script* Just let me know how you’d like to share this vision with the world. -- 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/CACDCHCJVGhZTVNeVMuqNhqJFMAKsALXrfLqAi-9d_AHu60G2VA%40mail.gmail.com.
