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The holographic metaphor in different areas of culture

The metaphor that can be found and realized in different areas of culture, sciences, politicians and other spheres of social activity becomes a new paradigm [T. Kuhn, 1970]. The holographic (holistic) metaphor, to our opinion, at present becomes a general cultural paradigm. Without interpretation in details, we are listing some examples of researches that evidently contain and reveal the holographic metaphor:

  1. S. Grof: Transpersonal psychology and cartography of unconscious:

Unconsciousness as a whole: Psychodynamic section - birth section - transpersonal section

  1. M. Porter’s theory of international competition:

Company as a whole of a strategy and structure: Factors – demand – accompanying and supporting brands

  1. Structural analysis in E. Bern’s psychological theory:

Itself: Child - Adult - Parentt

  1. Fundaments of physics:

Reason: Space – Time - Energy

Gravitation: Electromagnetic field - Nucleon's field - Lepton's field

The realization of the holographic metaphor in different areas of knowledge and culture allows revealing general trends of modern dynamics of projections of collective unconscious. In addition, to our opinion, this metaphor contains also a heuristic value. As an example we are briefly considering K. G. Jung’s model of human unconscious and an issue of cloning human being.

K. G. Young’s model of unconscious.

Without considering in details the description of "bootstrap structure" of K. G. Young’ unconsciousness, we are considering the base concept of a model from a standpoints of the holographic metaphor. According to K. G. Young, unconsciousness of each person contains a subset, connected to personal story. It also contains an extensive content that every one gets from ancestors and that saves our history as a species, as a tribe, as a family, and as a biological individual – a transpersonal field in modern terms and a collective unconscious in K. G. Jung. Collective unconscious is structured in a special way as a united interconnected network of archetypes (patterns, clusters, and complexes), some of which are realized and some of which are not realized consciously. K. G. Young has defined an archetype of Psyche as "image of instinct in the person" in a paradox way. From a standpoint of the holographic metaphor, the collective unconsciousness is a "hologram" of the whole human community, which continuously has been recorded in each of us through the ages, from one generation to the other. A person alone as a small part of such a "hologram" contains in himself a holistic, but non-defined symbolic image of all the people lived earlier and living at present, and which gets revealed through archetype symbols. Full hologram consists of the coherent ensemble of all people that live at the same time. As far as the process has some history and continuous constantly, it may be an explanation of some people’s phenomenological ability "to peek in the future". Different meditation practice, that are goaled toward transpersonal experience are probably also connected to the same process. On the other hand, in order to form, as far as it is possible, a full and vivid image of an object (a person or a community of people) it is necessary to consider and study an ensemble of small cells - the whole "hologram", to look for general features and particularities. That is what such sciences as psychology; sociology, economy, etc. are involved to. Both approaches add to each other but practically do not interfere, so to say, don’t understand each other, as it is observed in life.

Cloning a human being

In our opinion, one of the most "sick" points in the idea of cloning a human being is its connection to the hypothetical suggestion that one single cell of a living organism (a person) can serve for creating a complete identical copy of this organism. It is supposed indirectly that a separate cell contains the whole full information about the organism, the history of its interaction with the surrounding ambience in the process of its vital activity. However, as it is estimated now, the volume of the information collected in the human organism as an interconnected functioning ensemble of cells, is not less than the volume of genetic information. It is most likely that this information is stored in the whole functional network of interactions, that links a set of cells into the united complex human organism, that is structured on different levels of the hierarchy. So, from the standpoint of a holographic metaphor, the information about the organism is a hologram of itself and simultaneously it is kept in it. Herewith, a small part of the "hologram", a cell, serves to recreate the whole organism. But this recreation will be exact only at the biological level. A holographic metaphor allows supposing that "a clone" is only an "illusion of identity between a clone and an initial organism".

Great Square has no corners

All these considerations allow concluding that one of the basic archetypes of collective unconscious (the archetype of wholeness) that was revealed earlier basically in mythological and religious symbols is at present formed as a holographic (holistic) metaphor. This metaphor "leads itself" in different areas of scientific cognition, culture and education and it becomes a component of modern paradigm. The holographic (holistic) metaphor as a modern symbol of archetype of "Self" fully accords with eternal words given in "Tao de Dzin": "Great Square has no corners".