La successiva metastruttura discussa daTyler Volk e Jeff Bloom sono i clononi, componenti fisici o mentali intrinsici in una olarchia. La caratteristica principale è la loro identicità, dovuta al processo di replicazione-clonazione. L'esempio tipico a livello fisico sono le cellule che, replicandosi, possono formare sovrasistemi a olarchie come tessuti e organi. L'analogia è quella dei mattoni utilizzati come elementi per formare muri e sovrastrutture sempre più complesse, ma formate sempre dagli stessi identici componenti.
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| 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.
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| Corporate colones; Dale O'Dell |
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