The concept of "wholes" is not new. In 1926, Jan Christian Smuts, a South African Prime Minister and philosopher, coined the term "holism". He believed that there are no individual parts in nature, only patterns and arrangements that contribute to the whole. Buckminster Fuller also said back in 1969 while working on the space program: "Synergy is the only word in our language that means behavior of whole systems, unpredicted by the separately observed behaviors of the system's parts or any subassembly of the system's parts." Keep in mind that "The Whole is greater than the Sum of its Parts." Holism-Interconnectedness-Synergy around a photo of the Earth making 'The Whole is Greater than the Sum of its Parts' |
