meta-Tao clonons

The next metapattern discussed by Tyler Volk and Jeff Bloom are clonons, physical or mental components intrinsic in a holarchy. The main characteristic is their sameness, due to the replication-cloning process. The typical example are cells which, replicating, may form supra-systems with holarchies such tissues and organs. The analogy is that of bricks used as elements to build walls and structures increasingly complex, but always formed by the same identical elements.

Detail of decoration on the Taj Mahal, Agra, India (Photo: David Castor)

Background

The notion of clonons falls within the scope of holarchies, in that specific objects or ideas are repeated to create layers of embeddedness. As with the process of cloning, a specific object can be replicated. Clonons can build wholes and each whole can be a clonon of larger set.

Examples

• In science: identical cells in different layers of tissue, protons, neutrons, electrons, worker ants, each fish in a school, identical atoms in a molecule (e.g., two clonons of hydrogen joining a holon of oxygen to form a holon of a water molecule, which in turn become a clonon of water molecules in a cup of water), etc
• In architecture and design: bricks in a wall, tiles on a floor or ceiling, each light fixture in ceiling, each office or room on a floor, each floor in a building, windows in skyscraper, each house in a subdivision, etc.
• In art: each brush stroke in a painting, each decorative design unit in a pottery bowl, each point in a pointillism painting, etc.
• In social sciences: each individual in a community or society, each client in a business, each factory worker at a specific point in an assembly line, etc.
• In other senses: each tomato on a tomato plant, each tomato plant in a tomato garden, etc.

Corporate colones; Dale O'Dell

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