Patterns of Existence or Tendencies of Evolution Twenty Tenets - - TopicsExpress

Patterns of Existence or Tendencies of Evolution Twenty Tenets - Ken Wilber 1. Reality as a whole is not composed of things or processes, but of holons 2. Holons display four fundamental capacities: self-preservation; self-adaptation self-transcendence; self-dissolution 3. Holons emerge 4. Holons emerge holarchically 5. Each emergent holon transcends but includes its predecessors(s) 6. The lower sets the possibilities of the higher; the higher sets the probabilities of the lower. 7. The number of levels of 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 11. The micro is in relational exchange with the macro at all levels of its depth 12. Evolution is directional (13.) Increasing in complexity (14.) Increasing differentiation/integration (15.) Increasing organisation/structuration (16.) Increasing relative autonomy (17.) Increasing telos 18. The greater the depth of a holon, the greater its degree of consciousness 19. Every holon issues an IOU to the Kosmos 20. All IOUs are redeemed in emptiness