The concept of pooling commitment as described as protocol by Grassroots Economics Foundation is holonic in nature. A holon, as a term coined by Arthur Koestler, is something that is simultaneously a whole and a part. In other words, each holon is complete in itself while also being an integral part of a larger system.
The concept that man is a "small world" in the "big world" was commonplace in the Middle Ages. As a "holon within a holon", it conceptually points to the fractal nature of the world, but not "by exact shape" (Mandelbrot set) but by "similitudine".
The concept that man is a "small world" in the "big world" was commonplace in the Middle Ages. As a "holon within a holon", it conceptually points to the fractal nature of the world, but not "by exact shape" (Mandelbrot set) but by "similitudine".
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