"holonic" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2005, Gianfranco Minati, Eliano Pessa, Mario Abram, Systemics of Emergence: Research and Development, page 601",
          "text": "In force of its undecidable and holonic character, global sustainability can only be attained by resorting to suitable heuristics designed to guide global evolution.",
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          "ref": "2008, Mike Loutzenhiser, The Role of the Indigenous African Psyche in the Evolution of Human Consciousness, page 9",
          "text": "The ego is still there and thus the unconsciousness as well, but one is temporarily unconscious of the fact that there is a seam between ones ego and any other holonic faction.",
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          "ref": "2013, S.M. Deen, Agent-Based Manufacturing: Advances in the Holonic Approach, page 23",
          "text": "Early attempts in designing holonic manufacturing systems have taken a more technically oriented approach.",
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          "ref": "2014, Martin John Erickson, Thomas Carlson, Spirituality and Family Therapy, page 42",
          "text": "With this holonic knowledge, therapy participants establish a space wherein additional information can emerge from and assimilate with previous knowledge.",
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        "Pertaining to holons; involving something that is simultaneously a self-contained entity and a part of a larger system."
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          "ref": "2005, Gianfranco Minati, Eliano Pessa, Mario Abram, Systemics of Emergence: Research and Development, page 601",
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          "ref": "2008, Mike Loutzenhiser, The Role of the Indigenous African Psyche in the Evolution of Human Consciousness, page 9",
          "text": "The ego is still there and thus the unconsciousness as well, but one is temporarily unconscious of the fact that there is a seam between ones ego and any other holonic faction.",
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