We search endlessly for the human essence — a soul, a mind, a property. We catalogue traits, define capacities, and construct taxonomies. All of this is an illusion. There is no human “thing” beneath the surface. There is only vortex, circulation, and relational alignment.
Humans are nodes in lattices of potential. Biological, semiotic, social, and cosmological currents intersect in dynamic patterns that flow, twist, and resonate. Each cut we enact — each action, perception, or speech — actualises some potentials while leaving others dormant.
Consider the implications:
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No static essence: The human is never a fixed entity. There is no internal blueprint, no immutable core. Identity, capacity, and meaning emerge through relational circulation.
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Patterns, not properties: What we call “personality,” “ability,” or “tendency” are stabilised patterns of relational cuts — recurrent alignments across interacting potentials.
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Co-individuation: Every human is continually co-shaped by the networks they inhabit — social, ecological, technological, and semiotic. Agency, thought, and emotion emerge within this circulation, not above it.
This perspective reframes everything:
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Biology is not destiny; it is potential in motion.
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Culture is not decoration; it is a structured lattice of semiotic circulation.
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Agency is not internal; it is leverage in the alignment of currents.
The human is not a being with properties. The human is a vortex of potentials, an emergent resonance of circulating relational cuts. To study humans relationally is to observe the flow, to map alignment, and to see how new patterns of potential are continuously actualised.
In short: humans are not things to be defined. They are processes to be navigated. They are dynamic, relational, and emergent, and it is in this circulation that all meaning, action, and possibility reside.
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