The Evolution Of Worlds
Natural Drift, Inverse Darwinism, and the Biology of LoveBy Dr. Bichara Sahely
Length1h 32m
About this audiobook
What must a civilization conserve if it is to remain capable of becoming otherwise? The Evolution of Worlds brings Maturana's autopoiesis, natural drift, structural coupling, emotioning, languaging, and biology of love into dialogue with Deacon's Inverse Darwinism and McMurtry's life-value framework. It argues that novelty depends not only on selection but on protected margin: reserve, redundancy, diversity, and relational safety. These conditions allow difference to persist, discover complementarity, and become new capacity. Yet complexity can also harden into bureaucracy, dependency, enclosure, and harm. The audiobook proposes life-coherent generative drift as a framework for medicine, education, economics, AI, ecological governance, democracy, and peacebuilding - and asks what world our institutions and conversations are bringing forth.
Audiobook details
GenreEducation and Learning, Politics and Government
Length1 hr 32 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 24, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1
2The Argument in Brief
3A Verbal Map of the Master Diagram
4AI Use and Transparency Note
5Preface: The Paper That Wanted to Appear
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6Part I - The Selectionist World
71. The Civilizational Myth of Selection
82. Why Selection Alone Cannot Generate the New
9Part II - Conservation Through Change
103. Autopoiesis: Identity Without Rigidity
114. Natural Drift: Evolution Without Predestination
125. Structural Coupling and the Co-Bringing-Forth of Worlds
13Part III - Generative Reserve
146. Inverse Darwinism: From Duplication to Complementarity
157. Abduction, Semiosis, and Prepared Possibility
168. When Complexity Becomes Lock-In
17Part IV - Human Worlds
189. Emotioning: The Biology of Possible Action
1910. Languaging and the Recursive Production of Shared Reality
2011. The Biology of Love: Legitimate Otherhood as Generative Margin
2112. Cultural Drift and Institutional Autopoietization
22Part V - Life-Coherent Generative Drift
2313. The Integrated Framework
2414. Domains of Application
2514.1 Clinical medicine
2614.2 Education
2714.3 Ecology and environmental governance
2814.4 Economics and the civil commons
2914.5 Artificial intelligence and technology
3014.6 Democracy, law, and peacebuilding
3115. A Life-Coherent Institutional Protocol
321. What living purpose should be conserved?
332. What generative margin does that purpose require?
343. Which variations and voices are currently suppressed?
354. What coupling does the institution create?
365. What emotioning is being conserved?
376. Which complementarities could enlarge capacity?
387. What are the cross-scale life effects?
398. Can evidence of harm change core operations?
40Conclusion - The World Is What We Conserve Together
41Research and Practice Agenda
42Closing Reflection
43Source Note for Listeners
44Pronunciation Guide
45Acknowledgements
46About the Author
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