What is Good? - On Holons LO13268

Winfried Dressler (winfried.dressler@voith.de)
Thu, 17 Apr 1997 11:24:20 +0100

Stuart Harrow asked:

> A holon is simply an entity which is both complete in itself (e.g. an
> atom) and a part of a larger complete entity (e.g. a molecule) ...
> You postulate the existence of a holon and an holarchy .
> How would you go about proving their existence.

The existence is proved by giving one example - atom, molecule. Another
one: Try to think of your heart as being a holon in the holorchy
cell-organ-individuum.

More interesting to me is the question, whether one can give an example of
a non-holon. This would be a falsification of the postulate: Everything
that exists exists as a holon embedded in a holarchy. 

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