Social drift: the conservation of the coontogenic niche in the relational space of language
Abstract
Natural drift is the explanatory path proposed by Chilean biologists Humberto Maturana and Jorge Mpodozis for the evolutionary phenomenon, in which behaviour, that is, the dynamics of organism-environment encounters, and not some external factor, or master molecule, guides the history of change and conservation in a lineage. Likewise, coontogenic processes at various levels, from symbiotic associations to the formation of social systems, intra and multispecies, depend, at each moment, on the conservation of a relational space through the conduct of the organisms involved, a phenomenon that I call social drift. While acknowledging the arguments for human exceptionalism in language, I propose, from the observation of multispecies social systems, that many of these systems realize themselves as coontogenic niches in a linguistic domain, which last as long as each organism (human or not) consensually coordinates its actions with other organism or organisms, changing or conserving their dispositions of action (their emotions) in a way that is coherent with their history of interactions.
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