One of the MAP terms
See social organism in the Glossary according to which it:
is an AgentSpace that has developed enough internal coherence, governance capacity, and memetic identity to act as an Agent in its own right—a Holon one level up.
I would modify this slightly to read something like:
“When an AgentSpace contains agents that have sufficient internal coherence, governance capacity, and memetic identity, they can be treated as a unified Agent in its own right—a Holon one level up.”
aSimonG: This seems to me to confuse the broad idea of a space with the things that are contained in a space and bounded by the space's membrane. To me, the MAP terminology would benefit from a very clear distinction in vocabulary between a space and what is in that space; between a container and what is contained.
However, I also note that we are actually talking about representations in the MAP, rather than the things themselves; and thus the distinction is perhaps less clear.