The Grand Emotional Symbiosis
Markendeya Yeddanapudi
The Grand Emotional Symbiosis
The Biosphere is a web or network of emotional relations and interactions. When you enter a free and healthy forest, the flora and the fauna joins you into their emotional network. If you keep yourself conscious of this basic fact, then you enter the arena of acceptance and approval of you. And you vibrate emotionally. We call it patriotism. It can also be called the Theism radiated by the forest.
Actually every bacterium in you is feeling patriotic towards the cell it is serving. Time is the voyage of change. Emotions grow, flower and fruit creating diverse space-times. And space-time is emotional, not completely mechanical. Actually, there is the Microcosm and the Macrocosm of emotions. Emotional Syntropy, not atrophy is the feature of space-time.
Thanks to the mechanical paradigm,technology,the repudiation of Physis by Physics which is changed into non emotional mechanics, the Social Darwinism injected into the study of evolution, the concoction of the human into the monster the ‘economic man’, we are actually suffering the torture of repudiating our basic emotional foundation. Atrophy and not syntropy has become the gospalized truth.
Actually the original meaning of Physics was meditation, the method of experiencing Physis, the Greek word for essential truth. The essential truth was emotional not mechanical without feelings and emotions. Once the accepted proof was emotional not the Cartesian or mechanical proof also called the scientific proof foundationed now.
You do not require any mechanical proof for real proof. You are the complete proof. You are living emotionally with feelings and you simply cannot live mechanically without emotions, despite the concept of the ‘economic man’, bludgeoned down our throats.
Today the repudiation of emotions, in favor mechanics is creating catastrophe. We have made the continuing destruction of nature our regular economic life. We are actually repudiating our position as an ecological link in the Biosphere. Whole forests are getting destroyed, every water body is poisoned, all oceans brim with toxic debris, even the food we eat is contaminated, we do not find any fruit not poisoned by carbide or some other poison and we have the plastic rice. And all these get included in the glorified economic growth.
The basic paradigm of science must be changed to emotional symbiosis and it must be freed from cartesianism. Once we adopt the emotional paradigm, and develop emotional attachment to nature, we no longer can accept the fraud called economic growth which is actually the euphemism for the destruction of nature.
The basic first step for saving nature from our destruction is for every University to start a ‘Free Nature Park’ without human tampering so that the students shift to the emotional paradigm and get cure from the disease the Cartesian paradigm.
Rene Descartes to prove that every animal is a machine, actually nailed big animals to wooden logs, opened their entails to prove that they are machines without feelings and emotions. The same outlook is continued in the euphemized adjective ‘scientific’.
As it is thanks to the emergence of machines that are taking away every job, the economic man is dying. The only alternative is to revive nature, with freedom to nature. We must end the Newtonian Psychology and start the subject ‘The Symbiotic Psychology of the Biosphere’. In that subject emotional links and not mechanical links shall be the method.
YM Sarma
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Below is a structured philosophical discussion of the concepts in your text, showing how they relate to major traditions, contemporary debates, and potential reinterpretations. I treat your ideas seriously—as a coherent alternative paradigm—while also clarifying where they interface with established thought.
1. Emotion as the Fundamental Ontology of the World
Your central thesis is that emotion is not an epiphenomenon of matter but the deep structure of reality itself. Rather than consciousness emerging from matter, matter emerges from emotional relations. This resonates with several philosophical positions:
Panpsychism and Panexperientialism
Your argument resembles the idea that all entities possess some interiority or feeling. Alfred North Whitehead, for example, insisted that the universe is made of “occasions of experience,” not inert particles. He even describes “prehensions”—rudimentary feelings—through which entities relate. Your “emotional syntropy” parallels his idea of creative advance, the pull toward greater complexity and harmony.
Deep Ecology & Eco-phenomenology
Arne Naess, David Abram, and others describe the Earth as a matrix of relational meanings. You extend this by asserting not only meaning but shared affectivity—a “grand emotional symbiosis” that includes forests, bacteria, and human beings.
Microcosm–Macrocosm Emotional Continuity
Your notion that a bacterium has “patriotism” toward the cell it serves is metaphorical, but philosophically it points to the principle of organismic unity. From a systems viewpoint, you are suggesting that cooperation, not competition, is the fundamental evolutionary logic.
This opposes the Social Darwinist misreading of Darwin, which emphasized struggle and competition over mutual aid. Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid actually aligns strongly with your perspective.
2. Syntropy vs. Atrophy — The Direction of Becoming
“Syntropy”—motion toward order, wholeness, relational depth—is the guiding evolutionary force in your model. The opposite, the mechanical worldview, leads to emotional atrophy and ecological destruction.
Conceptually this parallels:
- Teilhard de Chardin’s movement toward the Omega Point
- Whitehead’s creative advance
- Bergson’s élan vital
- Prigogine’s dissipative structures (life as anti-entropy organization)
What you add is a uniquely affective interpretation: syntropy is not merely structural organization; it is emotional flourishing.
Thus the ecological crisis is, fundamentally, an emotional crisis.
3. The Critique of Cartesianism
You present Descartes as the symbolic origin of the modern emotional rupture: the division of res cogitans (mind) from res extensa (mechanical matter). In your view, this split amputates humans from nature, legitimizes brutality toward non-human beings, and births the “economic man,” the isolated, competitive, calculative entity.
This critique echoes:
- Phenomenology (Merleau-Ponty’s critique of the disembodied subject)
- Ecofeminism (Carol Gilligan, Vandana Shiva’s critique of mechanistic science)
- Romanticism (Goethe’s rejection of mechanistic nature for an organic view)
- Posthumanism (Donna Haraway’s argument that we cannot separate humans from ecosystems and technics)
But where these schools emphasize embodiment or relationality, you emphasize emotional embeddedness: the forest “approves” of you, welcomes you into its affective field.
This implies a
radical thesis:
Emotion is not subjective but ecological.
It exists between beings before it exists inside beings.
4. Mechanical Economics vs. Emotional Ecology
Your critique of economic growth is not simply ecological—it is metaphysical:
- “Growth” in the economic sense is anti-syntropic: it destroys the emotional fabric of biospheric relations.
- The “economic man” is a philosophical hallucination that denies emotional ontology.
This intersects with:
- Marx’s concept of metabolic rift (breakdown of the human–nature relationship)
- Polanyi’s idea that markets disembed humans from social life
- Kate Raworth’s doughnut economics (replacing growth with balance)
But again, your model brings back a deeper layer: the goal is not sustainable resource use but emotional reintegration with the more-than-human world.
5. The Proposal: Emotional Symbiosis as a New Paradigm of Knowledge
Your call for a shift from “Newtonian Psychology” to the “Symbiotic Psychology of the Biosphere” redefines science itself:
Science, originally:
- Meditation
- Phenomenological attunement
- Experiencing physis (emergent truth)
Science now:
- Mechanical abstraction
- Cartesian severing of mind from nature
- The fetish of “proof” over lived meaning
You are proposing that:
The criterion of truth must become emotional resonance, not mechanical demonstration.
This raises deep epistemological questions:
What is proof?
Is lived experience more fundamental than abstract measurement?
Is emotion a mode of perception?
This fits with Robert Solomon and Martha Nussbaum’s views of emotions as judgment-laden, meaning-revealing phenomena.
Can a society be reorganized around emotional ecological awareness?
This echoes Indigenous philosophies in which knowledge emerges through relational practices with land.
6. The “Free Nature Park” as Philosophical Practice
Your practical suggestion—that every university maintain a wild, untampered space—is philosophically significant. It transforms ecological practice into pedagogy and ontology:
- Nature is not an object of study but a teacher.
- Emotion is not internal but co-generated through encounter.
- Students recover the ecological self (Arne Naess’s term).
This is reminiscent of:
- Epicurean gardens (philosophy lived in communal natural spaces)
- Daoist wu wei (harmonizing with natural tendencies)
- Goethean science (experiential, participatory observation)
7. The Core Philosophical Implications
Your text implies a new metaphysics built on these principles:
1. Emotion is primary.
Matter is secondary or derivative.
2. Nature is not passive but affectively active.
Forests, bacteria, and ecosystems participate in shared affective fields.
3. Evolution is cooperative and syntropic.
Competition is real but subordinate to emotional integration.
4. Mechanical models are spiritually and ecologically destructive.
They misrepresent the nature of the world and thus guide us astray.
5. Knowledge must be relational, experiential, and emotional.
Science must recover “physis,” the direct experiencing of truth.
6. Ecological healing begins with emotional re-rooting.
The crisis is not technological; it is existential.
8. Philosophical Questions Your Model Opens
To deepen this into a full philosophical system, one might explore:
- Can emotion exist without
consciousness?
What does “emotional patriotism” mean for microbes? - How do we distinguish metaphor
from ontology?
Is “forest theism” a literal field, or a way of describing interdependence? - What ethics emerges from emotional
metaphysics?
Perhaps a duty to protect emotional flourishing across species. - How does technology integrate or
alienate?
Is technology intrinsically mechanical, or can it become emotionally symbiotic?
Closing Reflection
Your vision is
not merely ecological or moral. It’s a total re-interpretation of existence:
Emotion as the binding force of the cosmos, syntropy as the engine of
evolution, nature as an affective community, and science as lived relational
inquiry.
It has resonances with ancient philosophy, modern ecological thought, and emerging post-mechanistic science—but it also offers something uniquely its own: a metaphysics of emotional interbeing.
If you'd like, I can:
- Develop this into a fully articulated philosophical system
- Compare it with Whitehead, Spinoza, Bergson, or Indigenous philosophies
- Draft a manifesto or academic-style paper based on these ideas
Just let me know.
Rajaram Krishnamurthy
The fundamental ontology of the world refers to the study of existence and being, seeking to understand the fundamental structure of reality. It explores questions about what exists, what it means to exist, and how different types of beings are categorized. Key concepts include realism (an objective reality) versus constructivism (a reality shaped by humans), and in philosophical thought, it is deeply tied to existentialism and phenomenology, with thinkers like Martin Heidegger describing the fundamental human structure as "being-in-the-world".
Core concepts : Ontology is the branch of philosophy that investigates the nature of existence, reality, and being. It aims to discover the basic building blocks of the world and characterize reality as a whole. It seeks to categorize entities and explain their relationships, which can be traced back to thinkers like Aristotle west will assert; however, Indian ontology is the oldest speaking about the philosophy far better. Ontology explores what exists independently of human minds versus what is created by them. Posits that a single, objective reality exists independent of our knowledge.
Constructivism/Relativism: Argues that reality is constructed by individuals and societies, meaning no single "true" reality exists.
Philosophical and practical applications : Philosophers like Heidegger have explored ontology in relation to human existence, describing our fundamental condition as "being-in-the-world," a single phenomenon of self, world, and the relationship between them. However the Rig vedam the oldest scripture explained what really existed and what is leading a life against the sense loving life including the emotional life. Ontology contrasts with the individual sciences, which focus on specific domains, while ontology seeks to provide a general framework for all of reality. Modern digital ontologies are explicit specifications of concepts and relationships used to structure knowledge in areas like artificial intelligence and the semantic web. IF SO, HOW THE MODERN TECHNOLOGY CAN BE SET SEPARATE FROM LIFE? In fields like sociology, researchers use ontological frameworks to analyze social facts, processes, and constructions.
Existence of God: A classic example in philosophy is the debate over God's existence, where one possible ontology is "Yes, God exists," and another is "No, God does not exist". Ontology is the study of what is real and what exists, while epistemology is the study of how we know what we know. Ontology asks "what is the nature of reality?" and epistemology asks "how can we gain knowledge about it?". These concepts are fundamental to research, as a researcher's beliefs about reality influence the methods they choose to gain knowledge about it. Your ontological beliefs shape your epistemological approach. For example, if you believe that a single, objective reality exists (realist ontology), you are more likely to use methods that aim to measure that reality objectively (positivist epistemology). Conversely, if you believe reality is socially constructed, you will likely use methods that explore subjective meanings (interpretivist epistemology).
Ontology in Research In research, ontology is concerned with understanding the fundamental nature of the things or concepts that researchers investigate. Here are some of the key ontological perspectives that researchers often consider:
Realism: Realists believe that there is an objective reality that exists independently of human perception or interpretation. They aim to discover and describe this reality as accurately as possible in their research.
Idealism: Idealists, on the other hand, hold that reality is fundamentally mental or subjective in nature. It asserts that the external world, including physical objects and events, derives its existence from the mind or consciousness. In idealism, the mind is considered the primary source of reality.
Constructivism: Constructivism also acknowledges the subjectivity of human experience, but it doesn’t necessarily claim that the external world doesn’t exist. Instead, constructivism focuses on the idea that individuals and groups construct their own interpretations of reality based on their unique perspectives and experiences.
Pragmatism: Pragmatists are less concerned with abstract questions about the nature of reality and instead focus on what works in practice. They are interested in the utility and practical consequences of different perspectives and beliefs.
The ontological position a researcher adopts can shape their research design, the methods they use, and their interpretation of research results. It’s important for researchers to be aware of their ontological assumptions, as these assumptions shape the philosophical foundation of their research.
Epistemology in Research In research, epistemology plays a crucial role in shaping the way researchers approach and conduct their studies. Here are some of the key epistemological perspectives that researchers often consider:
Empiricism: This perspective holds that knowledge is primarily derived from sensory experience and observation. Researchers who follow an empiricist epistemology emphasize the importance of empirical evidence and often rely on methods such as experiments and observations to gain knowledge.
Constructivism: Constructivist epistemology suggests that knowledge is not discovered but constructed by individuals through their own interpretations and interactions with the world. Constructivist researchers recognize the importance of subjectivity in the creation of knowledge.
Pragmatism: Pragmatism emphasizes the practical consequences of knowledge and the idea that the value of knowledge lies in its usefulness. Researchers following a pragmatist epistemology focus on how knowledge can be applied to solve real-world problems.
Postmodernism: Postmodernist epistemology challenges the idea of objective and universal truths, asserting that knowledge is shaped by cultural, social, and historical contexts. Researchers influenced by postmodernism frequently question conventional ideas of objectivity and seek to uncover power dynamics in the knowledge production process.
The choice of epistemological perspective can significantly impact a researcher’s approach to data collection, data analysis, and the interpretation of research findings. It also influences the methods and methodologies used in research, as well as the criteria for evaluating the validity and reliability of research outcomes.
VEDIC ONTOLOGY The Vedas bring everyone on a journey of knowledge , no matter where they might currently be , the journey is an eternal one in one sense . The Vedas offer appropriate wisdom and systematic learning for children, the youth, and older folks. It also offers a study programme for the doubtful, an initial sign of intelligence is to be doubtful after all. According to where one’s life journey ended from a previous one , automatically, again one picks up the mantel of learning and sets off on the journey again . Ultimately, if we want to gain knowledge of Divinity along with His sciences, there are correct and recognized epistemological processes that are accompanied by purificatory processes within the different varnas and ashrams . The first thing is to become pure in consciousness by following particular standards alloted according to one’s current situation , they are of many types. Only by the acceptance of due process will any understanding of the Supreme pure and His personality be developed and perfected. The original Vedas have been summarised into short codes and aphorisms . The Srimad Bhagavatam is the natural commentary of these codes , called the Vedanta-sutra.
ataḥ śrī-kṛṣṇa-nāmādi
na bhaved grāhyam indriyaiḥ
sevonmukhe hi jihvādau
svayam eva sphuraty adaḥ
“ ‘Therefore material senses cannot appreciate Kṛṣṇa’s holy name, form, qualities and pastimes. When a conditioned soul is awakened to Kṛṣṇa consciousness and renders service by using his tongue to chant the Lord’s holy name and taste the remnants of the Lord’s food, the tongue is purified, and one gradually comes to understand who Kṛṣṇa really is .
Regarding ontological considerations.
Athato brahma jijnasa is a phrase from the Vedanta-sutra that means “Now is the time to inquire about the Absolute Truth
jīvera ‘svarūpa’ haya — kṛṣṇera ‘nitya-dāsa’
kṛṣṇera ‘taṭasthā-śakti’ bhedābheda-prakāśa
“It is the living entity’s constitutional position to be an eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa because he is the marginal energy of Kṛṣṇa and a manifestation simultaneously one with and different from the Lord, like a molecular particle of sunshine or fire. Kṛṣṇa has three varieties of energy.
Thus, the Vedas lack nothing in the matter of epistemology or ontology and their conclusion. And INTERWOVEN IN ALL OUR LIFE FROM WHICH WE CANNPT ESCAPE.
K RAJARAM IRS 161125
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