Whence Come, and Whither Go?
Cultural-Biology, Life-Coherent Distinctions, and the Future of HumannessBy Dr. Bichara Sahely
Length59m
About this audiobook
Whence Come, and Whither Go? is a reflective audiobook on the origins and future of humanness. Drawing on cultural-biology, the biology of love, autopoiesis, structural coupling, life-coherence, and civilizational repair, Dr. Bichara Sahely asks where human beings come from and where we are going. The answer is not found outside life, but within the relations we conserve: organism and niche, body and culture, love and language, reflection and responsibility. This work argues that humanity goes toward what it conserves. If we conserve fear, domination, money-value, sacred insecurity, and misrelevance, we drift toward disintegration. If we conserve love, self-respect, life-value, structural peace, ecological repair, and wisdom, another future becomes possible.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★★ 5.0 (1)
GenrePhilosophy, Science and Nature
Length59 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 18, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1
2Preface — The Question That Returns
3Part I — Whence Come?
41. Introduction — Whence Come, and Whither Go?
52. From Living
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63. From Structural Coupling
74. From Bodyhood into Humanness
85. From Love, Play, and Languaging
96. From Culture: The Second Womb
10Part II — The Turning Point
117. Reflection: Culture Becoming Visible to Itself
128. The Discipline of Domains
139. Love as the Orientation of Reflection
14Part III — Whither Go?
1510. Toward What We Conserve
1611. The Traps as Conserved Drifts
1711.1 The Thucydides Trap: Fear Conserved as Security
1811.2 The Midas Trap: Claim-Sovereignty Conserved Over Life-Ground
1911.3 Sacred Insecurity: Wounded Ultimacy Conserved as Violence
2011.4 Misrelevance: The Wrong Things Conserved as Mattering Most
2111.5 The Shared Pattern
2212. The Great Corrective
23Conclusion: The Human Question
24A Listener’s Glossary of Core Terms
25Autopoiesis
26UDEON
27Structural coupling
28Cultural-biology
29Languaging
30Emotioning
31Reflection
32Love
33Self-respect
34Life-coherence
35Life-ground
36Conserved drift
37The Life-Coherent Distinction Test
38The Diagnostic Questions: The Portable Version
39Note on Sources
40Acknowledgements
41Author Bio
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