Mastodawn

Tomorrow, in the 5th Annual Virtual #IntentionalCommunities Conference "Bringing Our Best Selves to the Whole" > https://www.sociocracyforall.org/sociocracy-in-intentional-communities-conference-2025/ at UTC 19:00 we'll talk about "Roots of #Sociocracy: #ComplexSystems, relationships, #holons, emergent properties and life the #chaordic space (learning from natural complex systems from a biological POV)".
Visual support material is already online on https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVJmvXSbU=/

Sociocracy in Intentional Communities Conference 2025 - Sociocracy For All

An ecosystem thrives when the organisms living there are healthy, connected, and growing. Their needs are met, and they can carry out their role in their

Sociocracy For All

Eduardo Mercovich (él)Nov 17

If you are interested in #Sociocracy or #Peer #Governance, this next Saturday 22 will be the "5th Annual Intentional Communities Conference — Bringing Our Best Selves to the Whole" > https://www.sociocracyforall.org/sociocracy-in-intentional-communities-conference-2025/

Surely not the best part, but I will participate in a Advocate for Sociocracy in #IntentionalCommunities Circle open session and will share some thoughts (and dialog) about "Roots of Sociocracy: #ComplexSystems, relationships, #holons, #EmergentProperties and life in the #chaordic space".

Sociocracy in Intentional Communities Conference 2025 - Sociocracy For All

An ecosystem thrives when the organisms living there are healthy, connected, and growing. Their needs are met, and they can carry out their role in their

Sociocracy For All

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jan May 5, 2024

By conceptualizing and modeling the entire universe as a holarchy containing smaller holons in continual co-creation, its intelligent and conscious evolution makes far more sense than within the old mechanical model of a nonliving universe. ... Within this view there is no occasion to raise the question how consciousness could emerge from nonconsciousness, any more than life from nonlife.
--Willis Harman & Elisabet Sahtouris, Biology Revisioned, p. xxiii
#holarchy #holons

jan May 5, 2024

Although Arthur Koestler introduced the terms "holon" and "holarchy" many years ago,...the terms have not exactly become part of the common parlance. ... One of the characteristics of a holon in any domain is its agency, or its capacity to maintain its own wholeness in the face of environmental perssures that would otherwise obliterate it. It has simultaneously to fit in as a part of something else, with its communions as part of other wholes. ... A holon can break up into other holons. But every has also the tendency to come together with others in the emergence of creative and novel holons...
--Willis Harman & Elisabet Sahtouris, Biology Revisioned, pp. xxi--xxii
#holons #holarchy