The holonic nature of Now-to-New

A holon is something that is simultaneously a whole in and of itself, as well as a part of a larger whole. In this way, a holon can be considered a subsystem within a larger hierarchical system (Wikipedia). The term was coined by Arthur Koestler.

The diagram below illustrates the linear and holonic forms of Now-to-New work and shows how each successive New becomes a new Now.

Why does this matter?

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Change is not a journey

Change can happen in the moment

The moment of transformation is not an event. It doesn’t have the properties of things or experiences. It has no position, no location in time, no beginning, no middle, and no end. It doesn’t look like anything or feel like anything.

Source: Werner Erhard, Epistemological And Contextual Contributions of est to General Systems Theory, presented to the symposium on Evolving Trends in General Systems Theory and the Future of the Family at the Sixth World Congress of Social Psychiatry, Opatija, Yugoslavia (now Croatia), 5 October 1976

I now pronounce you man and wife

Eighteenth birthday

Switching a light on

Railway points

Typing these words

Now-to-New building blocks, from one jump to multiple jumps to (multiple) nested jumps

NEW is not fixed

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From Now to New Right Here: Change-as-Flipping. A set of 19 slides created by Niels Pflaeging and Silke Hermann, BetaCodex, based on by my work in part and credited | View slides | Download pdf

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