The Holonic Enterprise and Theory Emergence: On emergent features of self-organization in distributed virtual agents.
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this paper we explore the holonic enterprise as an example of the phenomenon of emergence. To conduct this exploration, we describe some of the development work now being carried out in the holonic enterprise field and examine anticipated near-future outcomes of this work. We then provide a brief overview of significant achievements and innovations such as the Copernican revolution, the development of the calculus, and the explication of conceptual analysis as a methodological consequence of the demise of the logicism project, for example. We briefly discuss the paradigmshifting consequences of these achievements, suggesting that the holonic enterprise development work discussed in this paper as a phenomenon of emergence may have distinct parallels with such well-known innovation events. Developing a framework of 1st, 2nd and 3rd order conceptual analysis based on the demands and circumstances of unfolding technical, political and conceptual change, we then explore some implications of paradigm shifts in general, and speculate on the nature of the holonic enterprise in light of that overview. We suggest that a new 4th order of conceptual analysis may well be necessary to fully understand and embrace the concept of emergence, and finally conclude that the technical and conceptual work being done to create the holonic enterprise necessarily addresses theory emergence.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it