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n. 1 (context physics English) One of three kinds of quasiparticle (the others being the spinon and orbiton) that electrons in solids are able to split into during the process of spin–charge separation, when extremely tightly confined at temperatures close to absolute zero. 2 (context sociology English) The term "holon" is a structural family therapy term that implies the part and whole inevitably connected. Every holon is both a part and a whole, e.g.: an individual is part of a family, which is part of an extended family, which is part of a community, etc.
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Holon ( ; ) is a city on the central coastal strip south of Tel Aviv, Israel. Holon is part of the metropolitan Gush Dan area. In it had a population of . Holon has the second-largest industrial zone in Israel, after Haifa.
A holon ( Greek: ὅλον, holon neuter form of ὅλος, holos "whole") is something that is simultaneously a whole and a part. The word was coined by Arthur Koestler in his book The Ghost in the Machine (1967, p. 48). Koestler was compelled by two observations in proposing the notion of the holon. The first observation was influenced by Nobel Prize winner Herbert A. Simon's parable of the two watchmakers—in which Simon concludes that complex systems evolve from simple systems much more rapidly when there are stable intermediate forms present in that evolutionary process than if they are not present. The second observation was made by Koestler himself in his analysis of hierarchies and stable intermediate forms in both living organisms and social organizations. He concluded that, although it is easy to identify sub-wholes or parts, wholes and parts in an absolute sense do not exist anywhere. Koestler proposed the word holon to describe the hybrid nature of sub-wholes and parts within in vivo systems. From this perspective, holons exist simultaneously as self-contained wholes in relation to their sub-ordinate parts, and dependent parts when considered from the inverse direction.
Koestler also says holons are autonomous, self-reliant units that possess a degree of independence and handle contingencies without asking higher authorities for instructions. These holons are also simultaneously subject to control from one or more of these higher authorities. The first property ensures that holons are stable forms that are able to withstand disturbances, while the latter property signifies that they are intermediate forms, providing a context for the proper functionality for the larger whole.
Finally, Koestler defines a holarchy as a hierarchy of self-regulating holons that function first as autonomous wholes in supra-ordination to their parts, secondly as dependent parts in sub-ordination to controls on higher levels, and thirdly in coordination with their local environment.
Holons (also known as chargons, from English hole or charge, plus the -on suffix for particles) are one of three quasiparticles, along with spinons and orbitons, that electrons in solids are able to split into during the process of spin–charge separation, when extremely tightly confined at temperatures close to absolute zero. The electron can always be theoretically considered as a bound state of the three, with the spinon carrying the spin of the electron, the orbiton carrying the orbital location and the holon carrying the charge, but in certain conditions they can become deconfined and behave as independent particles.
Holon is a city on the central coastal strip south of Tel Aviv, Israel.
Holon may also refer to:
- Holon (album), a 2008 album by Nik Bärtsch
- Holon (Equinox album), a 1998 album by Canadian electro-industrial and drum 'n' bass band Equinox
- Holon (philosophy), something that is simultaneously a whole and a part
- Holon (physics), a quasiparticle that electrons can split into during the process of spin–charge separation
- Holon (sculpture), a sculpture by Donald Wilson in Portland, Oregon
Holon is an album by Swiss pianist and composer Nik Bärtsch's band Ronin recorded in France in 2007 and released on the ECM label.
Holon, also known as Hōlon, is an outdoor stone sculpture by Donald Wilson, located in the South Park Blocks in Portland, Oregon, United States. It was originally commissioned in 1978–1979 and re-carved in 2003–2004. It is part of the City of Portland and Multnomah County Public Art Collection courtesy of the Regional Arts & Culture Council, which administers the work.
Holon is the only album by electro-industrial and drum and bass band Equinox, released in 1998 by Hypnotic. Equinox was a side project of Canadian industrial musicians Bill Leeb and Chris Peterson of Canadian industrial band Front Line Assembly.
The album spawned the vinyl-only single Contact, including a remix of the title track and album track "Phenomena". Tracks from Holon also found their way onto the compilations Cryogenic Studios and Cryogenic Studio, Vol. 2 both of which are collections of tracks from Front Line Assembly and related projects.
Usage examples of "holon".
Or, more precisely, the Over-Soul is a new and higher holon embracing the physiosphere, biosphere, and noosphere as junior components in its own compound individuality.
Displacement confuses different holons because they share similar agency.
Condensation confuses different holons because they share similar communions.
All of which ultimately rest on the fact that we are contexts within contexts, holons within holons, forever.
But we are aided in this quest by precisely those evolutionary sciences that have already mapped the outward forms of the various holons at each stage of development, for we can reasonably make correlations between outward form and interior perception.
IOU principle in literary holons, eventually let this truth spin all out of control, and in ways simply not warranted by that truth itselfways that therefore turned finally on the terrorists themselves and deconstructed the deconstructionists.
Here I have indicated the three general domains of evolution from the angle of a compound individual holon on level 3.
And, typical of so many ecophilosophers, Fox wants to extend this paradigm to a flatland identification with all flatland holons.
The self becomes less and less egocentric, and thus embraces more and more holons as worthy of equal respect.
Jantsch is presenting genuine holarchies of both individual and social holons.
These psychic holons, like all holons, emerged and evolvedin time and historyand we will look briefly at the historical evolution of the mind and consciousness, and at how these psychic holons relate to the holons in the cosmos and in the bios.
Trying to decide whether the fundamental units of reality are things or processes is utterly beside the point, because either way, they are all holons, and centering on one or the other misses the central issue.
To say that holons are processes instead of things is in some ways true, but misses the essential point that processes themselves exist only within other processes.
Higher-level fields may act upon the fields of lower-level holons in such a way that their probability structures are modified.
This field organizes and patterns the indeterminism that would be shown by the lower-level holons in isolation.