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Integral World: Exploring Theories of Everything
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TABLE 2

THE RELATIONSHIP OF INDIVIDUAL (AGENTIC) AND SOCIAL (COMMUNAL) ASPECTS OF INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIAL HOLONS

   

Individual Holon

Social Holon

 

BOTTOM OF LEVEL

Individual exterior

Agentic behavior (autonomous holon)

Behavioral objectivity (heap)

Social exterior

 

Individual interior

Sensory perceptions (0,1,2,3-dimensional experience)

Interobjective consciousness

Social interior

         
 

Social exterior

Communal behavior

Behavioral interactions (highest stage)

Individual exterior

TOP OF LEVEL

Social interior

Thoughts (4,5-dimensional experience)

Intersubjective consciousness (4,5-dimensional experience)

Individual interior

This table contains the same relationships as shown in the right-hand side of Table 1, but rearranged to show how the individual aspects (agency) of individual holons are correlated with the social aspects (communion) of social holons, and vice-versa. On any level of existence, the agency of individual holons and communion of social holons are highest on the bottom stage, which consists of completely autonomous, non-interacting holons. A group of such holons is a heap. Conversely, the communion of individual holons and agency of social holons is highest at the top of any level. Intermediate stages exhibit inermediate degrees of agency/communion. As noted in text, these relationships hold, for social holons, only when they are in the process of developing or evolving, though for individual holons they are always as indicated.



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