March 2 (UPI) -- The most fundamental human act, communication, is entering a crisis that is reshaping human relationality. The stakes are not merely cultural. Digital platforms and the wider ecosystem of information and communication technologies are changing how we live, how we form judgments, and how we recognize one another. The biologist Humberto Maturana offered a useful warning: human beings are "self-producing" (autopoietic) systems, and our habits are learned and replicated through