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Ser humano y el proceso de autodesvelamiento

"Lo que es posterior en el orden de generación es anterior en el orden de sustancia". Aristóteles. Libro de Metafísica XIII. 1077.a.26-27


Aristóteles hace el comentario en relación a la construcción de objetos matemáticos, pero en relación a la vida el enunciado alcanza un significado más profundo. Esta afirmación apela a una intuición básica: en la generación de un objeto, lo último completa la construcción y sella la identidad del objeto. En los seres vivos, lo último en aparecer tiene un orden de sustancia anterior, es la sustancia que se expresaba y se abría camino en pasos incompletos: es la evolución de un orden superior involucionado. El Ser, sustancia de primer orden, es un proceso de desvelamiento, de evolución de lo involucionado. "Lo que llega a ser" proviene de un orden de generación anterior que contiene codificada la condición de posibilidad de lo posterior, como sucede con las semillas, que contienen todo el árbol y a sí mismas como posibilidad y como código. Desde el orden superior de Vida-Inteligencia, desde el Ser Humano, lo posterior es la creciente simbolización de la experiencia y de la propia identidad que en ella se despliega. Nuestros símbolos más complejos, nuestros planos mítico-rituales, muestran el paso de la Vida-Inteligencia hacia desarrollos cada vez más amplios, complejos y profundos, es un proceso de desvelamiento de un marco de posibilidades condicionantes y una apertura a la continua emergencia (aparición) semántica, a formas de inteligencia que hasta ahora sólo estaban como posibilidad, limitadas por el continuo emocional-racional en sus estadios más arcaicos.

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