Dynamic Systems Thinking

A systemic view implies approaching a system as a functional whole made of interdependent parts. An environmental view means to understand how the system is embedded in its natural and social environment.

Dynamic systems thinking, as it is its full technical name, is non-anthropocentric: the world is a network of phenomena that are fundamentally interconnected and interdependent, and the human being is entwined with it in every aspect of existence. The image of the world as networks nested in other networks, or open systems embedded in larger systems, expanded from the domain of physics through the domains of the human sciences. The major shift of focus went from elements to relationships. A system has come to mean an integrated whole whose essential properties arise from the relationships between parts and not from the parts themselves.

Dynamic systems theory developed in cybernetics, chaos theory, fractal geometry, holograms; the exploration was closely linked to biology, chemistry and neurological researches. The new concepts have been translated in the humanities and influenced psychology and the comprehension of the human being in general. To understand the systemic paradigm of the mind we may now explore the characteristics of systemic thinking.

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