58. Beyond Anthropocentrism

During the personal evolution that is ontogenesis, many humans gradually learn that, though the process of perceiving places them at the centre of their own personal world, they are not at the centre of the social-semiotic world, but rather, one of many in multiple networks of interdependent interrelations. Similarly, during the cultural evolution that is phylogenesis, many humans are gradually learning that, though the process of modelling positions humanity at the centre of perceivable world, humans are not central but rather one of many phenomena in multiple networks of interdependent interrelations. For example, in the Western tradition, there has been a gradual displacement of humans from the centre of the world: the Mediterranean from the middle of (the surface of) the Earth, the Earth from the centre of the solar system, the solar system from the centre of the Milky Way galaxy, in a universe that has no centre. 

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During the personal evolution that is ontogenesis, many humans gradually learn that although the process of perceiving places them at the centre of their own personal world, they are not at the centre of the social-semiotic world — but rather, one among many in multiple networks of interdependent interrelations.

Similarly, during the cultural evolution that is phylogenesis, many humans are gradually learning that although the process of modelling positions humanity at the centre of the perceivable world, humans are not central, but again, one of many phenomena in multiple networks of interdependent interrelations.

For example, in the Western tradition, there has been a progressive decentring of humanity: the Mediterranean was displaced from the middle of the Earth’s surface; the Earth from the centre of the solar system; the solar system from the centre of the Milky Way; the Milky Way from the centre of the universe — which now has no centre at all.