holonic

English

Etymology

From holon +‎ -ic.

Adjective

holonic (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to holons; involving something that is simultaneously a self-contained entity and a part of a larger system.
   • 2005, Gianfranco Minati, Eliano Pessa, Mario Abram, Systemics of Emergence: Research and Development, →ISBN, page 601:

     In force of its undecidable and holonic character, global sustainability can only be attained by resorting to suitable heuristics designed to guide global evolution.

   • 2008, Mike Loutzenhiser, The Role of the Indigenous African Psyche in the Evolution of Human Consciousness, →ISBN, page 9:

     The ego is still there and thus the unconsciousness as well, but one is temporarily unconscious of the fact that there is a seam between ones ego and any other holonic faction.

   • 2013, S.M. Deen, Agent-Based Manufacturing: Advances in the Holonic Approach, →ISBN, page 23:

     Early attempts in designing holonic manufacturing systems have taken a more technically oriented approach.

   • 2014, Martin John Erickson, Thomas Carlson, Spirituality and Family Therapy, →ISBN, page 42:

     With this holonic knowledge, therapy participants establish a space wherein additional information can emerge from and assimilate with previous knowledge.