Sentences with phrase «behavioural holons»

All instinctive and learnt behaviour may be described in terms of hierarchies of sub-skills or subroutines, i.e., behavioural holons.

To return to man: the «spelling out» of an intention — whether it is the expression of an idea or just the lighting of a cigarette — is a process of triggering patterns of sub-routines into action, behavioural holons on subordinate levels; it is a process of particularisation of a general intent.