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| | Holons, Heaps and Artifacts, by Fred Kofman |
 | | If one confuses holons, heaps and artifacts, one might start building (incorrect) "holarchies" going from brick to wall to room to apartment to building, simply because a brick is part of a wall, a wall is part of a room, a room is part of an apartment and an apartment is part of a building. |
 | | In a strict "holonic" sense, he will not be a "member" of the green socio-cultural holon, manifested in the exterior collective dimension as the "team" to which he belongs in the administrative sense. |
 | | Now, the individual holons or checkers on level 1 (the beige meme) depend for their existence on intricate networks of interrelationships with all the other beige checkers in their environment—depend, that is, on networks of their own social holons (the co evolution of micro and macro). |
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