What is "holons"

Usage examples of "holons".

But to say that the universe is composed of holons neither privileges a domain nor implies special fundamentalness for any level.

For example, when it was thought that atoms were the ultimate holons, then a simple atom had one level, a water molecule had two levels, an ice crystal had three levels, and so on.

When it was then thought that protons, neutrons, and electrons were the ultimate holons, then they had one level, a nucleus had two levels, an atom then had three levels, and so forth.

And the cure for this pathology, in all systems, is essentially the same: rooting out the pathological holons so that the holarchy itself can return to harmony.

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.

Primates, for example, are not very fundamental holons, because neither atoms nor molecules nor cells depend upon them.

At the same time, precisely because Gaia is the shallowest of all living social holons, it is exactly the most fundamental.

On the one hand, individual holons transcend but include their predecessorsdevelopment is envelopmentand so the total embrace of individual holons increases: cells embrace molecules which embrace atoms which embrace particles.

If we did this, say, three times, the holons on level 2 would have a depth of 2 and a span of 3.

And that means that a holon of depth three, for example, has to exist in an environment that also possesses holons of at least the same depth.

But for the moment, figure 3-7 may serve as one example of the growth of social holons in the newly emergent noosphere.