The Biology of Living Coordination
Autopoiesis, Biological Relativity, Emotional Sentience, and the Observer’s Discipline of DistinctionBy Dr. Bichara Sahely
Length1h 2m
About this audiobook
The Biology of Living Coordination proposes a new way of understanding life beyond genes, mechanisms, physiology, emotion, culture, or observer-made categories alone. Drawing on Humberto Maturana’s autopoiesis and organism–niche unity, Denis Noble’s Biological Relativity, and Katherine Peil Kauffman’s emotional sentience, Dr. Bichara Sahely develops a life-coherent science of organism–medium living. The work asks how living systems conserve organization, change structure, enact worlds, feel what matters, coordinate action, and remain answerable to life. Health becomes coherent transition; disease becomes discoordination; healing becomes restored movement; and wu-wei becomes non-forcing participation in the next coherent movement.
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GenreHealth and Wellness, Philosophy
Length1 hr 2 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 20, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1
2Autopoiesis, Biological Relativity, Emotional Sentience, and the Observer’s Discipline of Distinction: Toward a Life-Coherent Science of Organism–Medium Living
3Listener’s Preface
4How to Listen to This Work
5Note on the Academic Edition
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6Opening Epigraph
7Part I — The Need for a New Domain of Inquiry
81. From Mechanisms of Life to Living Coordination
92. Why Physiology Is Necessary but Not Sufficient
103. The Danger of Possession by Distinction
11Part II — Three Foundational Windows
124. Maturana: Living Constitution, Organism–Niche Unity, Emotioning, and the Observer
135. Noble: Biological Relativity and the Multi-Level Causality of Living Systems
146. Kauffman: Emotional Sentience and the Felt Valuation of Living Agency
15Part III — The Biology of Living Coordination
167. Living Constitution
178. Organism–Medium Coupling
189. Multi-Level Causal Realization
1910. Affective Valuation and Emotioning
2011. Observer Languaging and Distinction-Making
21Part IV — Toward Life-Coherent Inquiry and Action
2212. Health as Living Coordination
2313. Disease as Discoordination
2414. Healing as Restored Movement
2515. Care as Structural Coupling
2616. Wu-Wei as Non-Forcing Participation
2717. Public Health and Civilization as Extended Niche
28Part V — Limits, Safeguards, and the Discipline of Staying Open
2918. Why the Framework Must Remain Provisional
3019. What the Framework Does Not Claim
3120. Five Methodological Safeguards
3221. The Risks to Avoid
3322. Conclusion: Toward a Science Answerable to Life
34Closing Reflection
35Acknowledgements
36About the Author
37Note for Listeners
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