The Individual is the baseline center of consciousness, the holons being referred to. In human psychology and occultism this is the "microcosm", the individual as a smaller (fractal) image of the cosmic or universal whole. The individual is both a part of its environment, and the totality of all the holons of which it is constituted. At the same time, this is the only level of consciousness that is fully individualted, being between the individual microcosmic and the collective or network macrocosm.
In Wilber's 4 quadrant Integral philosophy (here only the upper two quadrants are shown), which is influenced by postmodernism and developmental psychology, the Individual dimension of consciousness is represented by the Intentional and Behavioural aspects. The the gross physical plane corresponds in part to the right quadrant of the diagram (Behavioural), and the subjective outer consciousness (Intentional) to the left hand side. The various individual evolutionary gradations are shown. The ones on the right are based on Erich Jantsch's work, the ones on the left on developmental psychology. For Wilber, the individual cannot be considered apart from the collective. However, I beleive that the individual cxonsciousness does not have to be tied to the collective, or the subjective to the objective. Moreover, there are infinite possible relationships. Nevertheless, Wilber's uintegral theory diagram represents a useful representation on a simplistic level
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