From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Oct 06 2002 - 13:52:59 MDT
Charles Hixson wrote:
>
> I'm thrown by the word "holonic". For many possible meanings, the assertion
> is true. I want to say obviously true, but what I mean it true due to
> analysis at the level of propositional calculus (mostly) ... it wasn't
> obvious at first or second reading, because it was complex. And without
> knowing the meaning of holonic, I can't decide whether it's a small subset or
> (possibly) an identity. I.e., it's unchunkable.
Sorry. "Holonic" refers to the way in which a thing can be simultaneously
a whole composed of parts, and a part in a larger whole. Due to
Koestler's "The Ghost in the Machine".
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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