Here, we reflect on life through the lens of Systemic Intelligence and Complexity Science.
8 de julho de 2026 — Por Rosana Jotta
Hello!
Nothing exists in isolation.
What we call mind, narrative, institution, or society are useful abstractions of processes in continuous relation with biological life itself. They emerged to adjust specific contexts, whether within families, nations, or entire civilizations.
Money, for example, does not exist in nature, yet when we organize our relationships through it, it profoundly reorganizes human ways of living. It does so in such a radical way that, in many cases, it seems more essential than life itself.
What is useful is anything that serves us: when applied in practical life, it brings benefits and ease, but also potential harm, depending on how we inhabit it.
These structures allow us to operate in the world and coordinate actions. At the same time, as we come to depend on them, they begin to reorganize and intervene in the very biological, relational, and ecological life that produced them.
The problem does not lie in abstractions themselves, but in the way we come to inhabit them, often forgetting that they are constructions meant to serve life, not replace it.
Within the biosystemic paradigm, life is primary. Everything else (money, narrative, institutions, social roles) exists to serve it, never to take its place.
Placing each of these abstractions in its proper position, as structures in service rather than as ultimate priorities, is what allows Ontological Love (that which sustains and organizes relationships beyond judgment or merit) to flow more naturally.
When an abstraction usurps the place of life, love contorts itself to fit within it. When the abstraction returns to its place as a tool, love begins to circulate freely again, sustaining what is alive.
Because life expresses itself through them, biology, culture, narrative, and ecology cannot be understood in a linear or separate way.
They are part of life itself. They act upon one another continuously.
They are interdependent expressions of the same living dynamic, in radical spiraling (a circularity that never quite returns to the same point, but moves forward through time). They emerge from specific contexts, and, at the same time, generate new contexts to be transformed.
Within this biosystemic view of life, we revisit a concept attributed to Lavoisier:
“In nature, nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed.”
This principle resonates deeply with the Second Order of Love, as observed by Bert Hellinger, here understood as a structural and ontological principle that governs temporal order and makes life as we know it possible.
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Rosana Jotta
Rosana Jotta is a facilitator specializing in Boundary Conditions, Systemic Intelligence, and Biosystemic Education, with over 20 years of experience. She is a Boundary Architect, an educator (UFU), and a Systemic Constellator trained at IMAHOM, with participation in a seminar with Bert Hellinger and training in Integrative Community Therapy through ABRATECOM. She is the founder of Instituto Rosa da Terra and facilitates transformation processes for people seeking to break free from repetitive patterns and live with greater awareness, clarity, lightness, and success. Discover her Training Programs, Mentoring, and group or individual sessions, available in person or online.