-- *Mar*Certainly. Below is a carefully edited version of your original essay, preserving your core ideas and passionate tone while improving *clarity, structure, grammar, and coherence*. The style has been refined to reflect a more academic yet expressive voice, suitable for publication or presentation in a university context. ------------------------------ *The Gigantic Disconnection*
*By YM Sarma (Edited Version)* We are rapidly advancing into an era where every limb of our body, every mental faculty, and even our emotional experiences are being taken over by machines. Human life itself is increasingly being lived *through* machines. We are entering an age of total physiological and psychological paralysis—where we become passive vessels while artificial systems simulate life on our behalf. This is being celebrated as scientific progress. But in truth, it is a profound disconnection—not only from nature but from ourselves. We are systematically repudiating and divorcing ecology. With a Cartesian, mechanistic worldview, we reduce ourselves to detached observers—not only of nature but of our very being. We are unrelating to the self, rendering our natural faculties redundant. The human is being sidelined—becoming a mere spectator of their own existence. Art, the primary expression of our emotional and aesthetic connection with nature, flourishes in ecological freedom. The healthier the natural world, the more vibrant and ecstatic our artistic lives become. When nature is destroyed—when it becomes nothing but a resource for economic activity—art dies. Today, the “economic man,” modeled after Newtonian machinery, is systematically replacing the natural Homo sapiens. We are witnessing a slow extinction of the human spirit. This new figure—the cyborged human—is evolving outside of nature. He operates without any symbiotic relationship with other organisms. No longer a participant in natural evolution, he is now an architect of synthetic evolution—cyborging both nature and himself. What will the life of a newborn be like in such a future—when nature is ecologically dysfunctional, when basic hormonal and neurological communications are mechanized, and when a baby must relate to machines instead of the natural world? Perhaps this is a slow echo of an ancient crisis—the so-called oxygen holocaust around 2,000 million years ago, when oxygen, then a deadly gas, wiped out most life. Before that, life thrived without oxygen. Evolution eventually produced organisms that could tolerate and even depend on it. Many bacteria in our bodies today are remnants—refugees—from that era, still resisting oxygen’s toxic effects. Machines, however, do not need oxygen. And now, through rampant industrialization, we are reducing oxygen-producing ecosystems—cutting down forests, poisoning air, water, and soil. We are creating an environment uninhabitable for most living organisms, while simultaneously becoming less dependent on oxygen ourselves—as if preparing for a post-biological existence. Economics, in this context, is not a system of sustenance—it is war against nature. The economic man is extinguishing the natural human. Imagine his future: mechanized limbs, machine-administered bodily functions, minimal need for oxygen, and a planet devoid of biodiversity. Are our universities not complicit in this madness—training students to become economic agents, instrumentalists, engineers of ecological ruin? Even tools like ChatGPT can now create lessons, teach classes, conduct exams, and evaluate students—rendering faculty and university structures increasingly redundant. In response, every university must take on the urgent task of *saving* nature—not just studying or simulating it. As a starting point, each institution should establish a *Free Nature Park*—a space where nature is left entirely untouched by human intervention, allowing ecosystems to recover from the ongoing process of "diseasification." ------------------------------ Let this not be our final legacy: a world where nature is forgotten, and humanity becomes obsolete to itself. ------------------------------ Would you like this version formatted for publication, as a speech, or adapted for a specific audience (e.g., students, policymakers, or environmentalists)? -- 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/CACDCHCKujADqJYoGo%3DGCPibS4RqQShbSM%2B2Tao8tJ-SiuWE_Cg%40mail.gmail.com.
