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It's HOLONs...all the way up, and all the way down...
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Sex, Ecology, and Spirituality was required reading for a college philosophy class...you are correct in stating its physical size (large) & the large impact the text has on all layers of life experience! Great to see another GLP'er who has been exposed to Wilbur's ideas. He never went to college -- great background on him & at his online institute site: [ link to www.integralinstitute.org] I always thought his look is remarkably similar to another great philosopher: Michel Foucault... Oh, & great blog, Sickscent! I Love Ken Wilbur! "A Brief History of Everything" was a life-changing book! (<80%) [ link to www.esalenctr.org] According to Wilber, the Twenty Tenets are an attempt to summarize and draw some basic conclusions from dynamic systems theory and the contemporary evolutionary sciences. Calling them "tendencies of evolution" or "propensities of manifestation," the Twenty Tenets operate throughout the three great domains of evolution: the physiosphere, the biosphere, and the noosphere (or matter, life, and mind).
Ken Wilber’s Twenty Tenets are:
1. Reality is not composed of things or processes, but of holons, which are wholes that are simultaneously parts.
2. Holons display four fundamental capacities:
a. self-preservation (agency)
b. self-adaptation (communion)
c. self-transcendence
d. self-dissolution
3. Holons emerge.
4. Holons emerge holarchically.
5. Each holon transcends and includes its predecessors.
6. The lower sets the possibilities of the higher; the higher sets the probabilities of the lower.
7. The number of levels which a hierarchy comprises determines whether it is ‘shallow’ or ‘deep;’ and the number of holons on any given level we shall call its ‘span.’
8. Each successive level of evolution produces greater depth and less span.
9. Destroy any type of holon, and you will destroy all of the holons above it and none of the holons below it.
10. Holarchies co-evolve. The micro is always within the macro (all agency is agency in communion).
11. The micro is in relational exchange with macro at all levels of its depth.
12. Evolution has directionality:
a. increasing complexity.
b. increasing differentiation/integration.
c. increasing organization/structuration.
d. increasing relative autonomy.
e. increasing telos.Yeah, his stuff is amazing. I've read most of his stuff. Sex, Ecology, and Spirituality is my favorite, though it is mammoth in size. 
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