Interior Individual and Collective Holons

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Interior Individual and Collective Holons
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Archaic Proto -1st Person Perspective

• A degree of development that is imbedded in all
  organism physiological needs. A self-sense that
  is minimally differentiated from its environment
  and is in nearly all ways oriented towards
  survival. Although present in infants, it is
  rarely seen in adults except in cases of famine,
  natural disasters, or other catastrophic events.

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Egocentric - 1st Person Perspective

• The home of egocentric drives, a magical
  worldview, and impulsiveness. It is expressed
  through magic/animism, kin-spirits, and such.
  Young children primarily operate with this
  worldview. These emotions and cognition can be
  seen driving cultural phenomena such as Burning
  Man, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or
  superhero-themed comic books or movies.

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ego-to-ethnocentric 1st-to 2nd-person perspective

• Drives based on power, aggression. Limited
  capacity to take the role of "other." Seen in
  grade school and early high school, where
  bullying, teasing are the norm. Can be seen
  culturally in Ultimate Fighting contests, which
  have no fixed rules (fixed rules come into being
  at the next level), teenage rebellion gang
  dynamics (where the stronger rule the weaker).

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ethnocentricable to take a 2nd-person perspective

• Mythic worldviews are always held as absolute.
  Instead of "might makes right they are more
  oriented to the group, but only "my" group.
  Strong motivations to "fit in. Can be seen in
  fundamentalism (only my God is right) extreme
  patriotism (only my country is right)
  ethnocentrism (only my people are right.

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worldcentricable to take a 3rd-person perspective

• Begins to move away from blind conformity to
  one's religion, nation, or tribe. Realizes that
  "truth is not delivered it is discovered,"
  spurring the great advances of science and formal
  rationality. Ethics begin to embrace all people,
  "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that
  all men are created equal.... many of the laws
  written to protect individual freedom.

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worldcentric to kosmocentric takes a
4th/5th-person perspective

• Marks the beginning of an integral worldview,
  where pluralism and relativism are transcended
  and included into a more systematic whole. Begins
  to see the process of development itself,
  acknowledging that each one of the previous
  stages has an important role to play in the human
  experience and pulls them all together and
  integrates them without trying to change them to
  be more like me.

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kosmocentricable to take a 5th-person perspective

• Mature integral view, sees not only hierarchy
  but also the various quadrants of humans
  knowledge, expression, and inquiry . While this
  worldview tends to be secular, it is the first to
  begin to integrate Spirit as a living force in
  the Universe.

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