Short excerpt from a YouTube video of Russ Ackoff discussing systems thinking. Ackoff emphasizes that no part of a system acts independently; system properties (emergent properties) belong to the whole, not to individual parts. He illustrates with an automobile: while wheels, axles, seats, and the motor cannot individually transport a person, the assembled automobile can.
No part of a system or collection.
Of parts of a.
System has an independent effect on it.
Therefore, the way the heart affects you.
Depends on what the lungs are doing and the brain is doing.
The parts are.
All interconnected, and therefore a system is a whole that cannot be divided into independent parts. Now, that has some very, very important implications that are generally overlooked. First, the essential or defining.
Properties of.
Any system are.
Properties of the whole.
Which none of its parts have. For example, a very elementary system you are familiar with is an automobile. The essential property of an automobile is it can carry you from one place to another. No part of an automobile can do that. The wheel can't. The axle can't. The seat can't. The motor can't. The motor can't even.
Carry itself from.
One place to another. But the automobile can.
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