A Maturana-Informed Grammar of Viability
Conserving Life, Love, Reflection, and CoexistenceBy Dr. Bichara Sahely
Length4h 26m
About this audiobook
A Maturana-Informed Grammar of Viability develops a slow, reflective way of asking what kind of world we conserve through our living. Drawing from Humberto Maturana’s biology of love, it moves from living, structural coupling, emotioning, languaging, conversation, and culture toward a practical grammar for seeing whether families, institutions, economies, and civilizations conserve life or negate it. At its center is one question: What manner of living is being conserved here, and does it keep life livable?
Audiobook details
GenreHealth and Wellness, Philosophy
Length4 hrs 26 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 21, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1
89Responsibility: Answerability for Participation
2A Guide for Listeners
90Responsibility Is Not Omnipotence
3Introduction: The Question of the Manner of Living
91Responsibility and Self-Respect
4Methodological Orientation: Distinctions, Domains, and Explanations
92Responsibility and Intention
5The Guiding Inquiry
93Responsibility and Culture
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6Living: Conservation-Through-Change
94Responsibility and Institutional Life
7Living and the Medium
95Responsibility and the Living Earth
8Living and the Manner of Living
96Responsibility and Life-Coherence
9The First Derivation
97Diagnostic Consequence
10Medium and Niche: The Relational Place of Living
98Freedom: The Reflective Possibility of Living Otherwise
11The Organism–Niche Relation as Manner of Living
99Freedom Is Not Unbounded Choice
12Medium, Niche, and the Human Child
100Freedom as Release from Automatic Conservation
13Diagnostic Consequence
101Freedom and Desire
14Structural Coupling: The History of Congruent Change
102Freedom Requires Love
15Structural Coupling and Non-Instruction
103Freedom and Institutions
16Structural Coupling and the Human Relational Medium
104Freedom and Culture
17Structural Coupling and the Possibility of Transformation
105Freedom and the Living Earth
18Diagnostic Consequence
106Freedom and Life-Coherence
19Behavior: The Relational Flow of Organism and Medium
107Diagnostic Consequence
20Behavior and the Observer
108Transformation: A New Conservation Beginning to Live
21Behavior and Domain Confusion
109Variation, Change, and Transformation
22Behavior and Possible Doings
110Transformation Requires a Change in Emotioning
23Diagnostic Consequence
111Transformation Cannot Be Imposed
24Emotioning: The Relational Domain of Possible Behavior
112Transformation and the Child
25Emotioning and the Character of Action
113Transformation and Institutions
26Emotioning and Reasoning
114Transformation and Life-Coherence
27Emotioning and Culture
115Diagnostic Consequence
28Emotioning and Life-Coherence
116Life-Coherence: Conservation That Does Not Betray Living
29Diagnostic Consequence
117Life-Coherence Begins in Living
30Languaging: Recursive Coordination of Doings
118Life-Coherence in the Human Domain
31Languaging and Consensuality
119Life-Coherence and Love
32Languaging and Emotioning
120Life-Coherence and Culture
33Languaging as Expansion of Possible Living
121Life-Coherence Is Not Stability
34Languaging and Symbolic Worlds
122Life-Coherence and Reflection
35Diagnostic Consequence
123Life-Coherence and Responsibility
36Conversation: The Human Medium of World-Conservation
124Life-Coherence and the Living Earth
37Conversation as Braided Languaging and Emotioning
125The Working Definition
38Conversation and the Conservation of Worlds
126Diagnostic Consequence
39Conversation and Institutional Life
127Transition to the Diagnostic Primitives
40Conversation and Life-Coherence
128Diagnostic Primitives: A Practical Grammar of Life-Coherent Inquiry
41Diagnostic Consequence
129Conservation
42Culture: The Conserved Network of Conversations
130Constraint
43Culture and Conserved Emotioning
131Margin
44Culture as Medium
132Disturbance
45Cultural Change
133Present Structure
46Culture and the Child
134Regulation
47Culture and Life-Incoherence
135Relevance
48Diagnostic Consequence
136Possible Doings
49Love: The Relational Domain of Legitimate Coexistence
137The Diagnostic Sequence
50Love Is Not Blind Acceptance
138The Recursive Safeguard
51Love and Aggression
139Working Statement
52Love as the Ground of Humanness
140Using the Grammar Without Mechanizing Living
53Love and Trust
141The Child
54Love and Use
142The Clinic
55Love and the Living Earth
143The School
56Diagnostic Consequence
144The Institution
57Suffering: The Conserved Negation of Love
145The Economy
58Suffering as Narrowed Possible Living
146Civilization and Earth
59Suffering and Cultural Legitimacy
147The General Method
60Suffering Is Not the Same as Conflict
148From Diagnosis to Invitation
61Suffering and Institutions
149Working Statement
62Suffering and the Living Earth
150From Diagnosis to Transformation: The Invitational Method
63Diagnostic Consequence
151The Four Movements of Life-Coherent Practice
64Healing: Restoring Love, Trust, and Possible Living
152Attend
65Healing as Restoration of Trust
153Distinguish
66Healing Is Not Forcing Change
154Reflect
67Healing as Reflective Conversation
155Conserve Otherwise
68Healing and the Diagnostic Primitives
156The Smallest Unit of Transformation
69Healing at the Cultural Level
157Invitation Rather Than Imposition
70Healing and Life-Coherence
158The Observer’s Discipline
71Diagnostic Consequence
159From Repair to Culture
72Reflection: Living Becoming Able to See How It Is Living
160Working Statement
73Reflection and the Inherited World
161Recursive Safeguard: Applying the Grammar to Itself
74Reflection as Release from Certainty
162The Grammar Can Betray Itself
75Reflection and Culture
163The Observer’s Return
76Reflection and Love
164Diagnosis Must Remain in Love
77Reflection and the Diagnostic Grammar
165Responsibility Without Blame
78Reflection and Freedom
166The Grammar Must Protect Margin for Reflection
79Diagnostic Consequence
167The Grammar Must Remain Open to Correction
80Ethics: Care for Consequences in Coexistence
168Recursive Diagnostic Questions
81Ethics as Reflective Conversation
169Final Synthesis
82Ethics Belongs to Love
170Closing Statement
83Ethics and Desire
171Conclusion: The Grammar Ends Where Living Begins Again
84Ethics Is Not an Imperative from Outside
172Listener’s Closing Note
85Ethics and Institutions
173Glossary for Listeners
86Ethics and the Living Medium
174Note on the Academic Edition
87Ethics and Life-Coherence
175About the Author
88Diagnostic Consequence
176AI Assistance Note
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