What does holistic mean?
I have googled and read and read and googled but I just cant seem to grasp what it actually means. Its driving me nuts. Send help
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Describes something made out of holons. And what that means is, the whole thing is a system, and the elements are also systems in themselves, with system defined as something whose behavior can be thought of as cycling (to get more technical, anything the behavior of which can be graphed as a sine wave). A body is a system and a holon in the total ecology of the world. Cells are holons in the body.
This can be drawn as something looking like a family tree.
Holistic as an adjective meaning complete, or organic or something, is a misuse. Especially when spelled wholistic.
Here’s a more complete description of holon from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holon_(philosophy)
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