THE SYSTEMS THINKER--Effective Mental Models and Essential Thinking Skills For Solving Complex Problems, Managing Chaos, and Creating Lasting Solutions. Notice the Details Others Miss by Thomas Ballard

Author:Thomas Ballard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thomas Ballard
Published: 2021-01-08T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Systems Thinking Is Not the Same as Holistic Believing

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et this argument that is made that systems Believing (ST) stands compared to (in this instance on opposite ends of a continuum from) reductionism. This claim seems reasonable at first, and its one made systems thinkers that are modern in addition to most of those fathers of systems thinking. However, there are a few risks, largely having to do with people. First, if reductionism (breaking things down to their Constituent components) is on one side of a continuum, then holism (seeing things from the context of the entire) is about the other. Then holism and ST are interchangeable if reductionism is the contrary of ST. Here is the difficulty... No matter one has, There's Always a bigger Whole to behave as circumstance, and it's consequently removing the whole under consideration from the whole it is a part of, which is one of the chief criticisms with reductionism. So, being a holist who does not reduce or being a pure reductionist who is not holistic is absurd and it is a false dichotomy. We need to do both just to begin thinking about anything. Thus, breaking things down into parts (reductionism) is an act of systems thinking. An equilibrium that is part-whole that is healthier is an essential facet of systems. There is an old expression that there are two types of scientists: lumpers and splitters. Systems’ thinking afterward is the action of not accepting this duality and of becoming a "plumper." Obviously, a second problem is created by this. After we "break" Things down to their structural components, we're "breaking up" the dynamical relationships, thus we need to, therefore, take additional caution to spot the broken relationships and also consider these as the dynamical areas of the entire (or we might get inexplicable phenomena we have to label development). We have yet another problem: that our most holistic Thinking can't be total and infinite. Holistic thinking has to draw a border, at least between what we don't and that which we believe. At the moment, there is a differentiation between what we chose to not look at and that which we chose to think about. This border is a differentiation where we identify something as being within the reach of our monitoring and several other items like being outside the range. This, in turn, causes another problem that the Choice of a border is one, thus we must consider these distinctions we create for the entire (and every succeeding Distinction we make of these components) is perspectival. Change our view and the distinctions we create change.

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