Description of Foreword
Some people study rocks, some people study medicine, and some people study French cooking. We are going to study systems.
A system is two or more parts that interact to form a whole. Systems are everywhere from the smallest cell to your family, to the community, to the earth, these are all systems. Things that are part of everyday life are a part of systems
Let’s take you as an example. You have a pile of laundry. What is the difference between you and the pile of laundry? Well, if you think about it if you take the T-shirt out of the pile, does it change the functioning of the laundry pile? Not really, just one less item to fold up. But let’s say you take your stomach out of your body, that would change things a little right? The stomach would not be able to work on its own and neither would your body without the stomach. But, if the heart, the brain, and the lungs are all interacting, they produce things like running, jumping, or breath. That is the difference between a system and a heap.
In out journey we will also have a look at how synchronous operations creates the basis of a functional society.
We do not see systems walking around every day, there are no lines drawn between connections. We have to imagine those connections ourselves. It is the interactions between systems that produce something greater. It is the idea that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
