Homo Symbioticus Manifest

We have built our societies on a fiction: that of the sovereign individual, an isolated atom, the origin of himself. It has served its purpose. But when it becomes the invisible architecture of our institutions, it produces exactly what it claimed to avoid — fragility, isolation, disorientation. The life sciences tell us something else. Humans are nodes in a symbiotic network, criss-crossed by relationships, constituted by their environments as much as they constitute them. Homo symbioticus is not a metaphor—it is a rigorous description of who we are, and the starting point for an evolution in our worldview. This is a line of research and a working protocol.