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What is Holon/Parton

Chapter 405
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
A portmanteau synthesis of the terms holon and parton. A consilient (science and the arts) synthesis of these two terms used herein is ‘holon/parton’ as this term emphasizes the dual or ‘Janus-faced’ (Koestler, 1979, p. 27) nature of these whole/part entities; they are a whole and also a part at the same time in both biological and in socio-cultural systems and also in biological and biocultural units.
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The Holon/Parton Structure of the Meme, or The Unit of Culture
J. T. Velikovsky (University of Newcastle, Australia)
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 13
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2255-3.ch405
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