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🧩 “Is #structure the true #reality?”🌐

In the current #Zoomposium, we discuss with #MichaelEsfeld why #reality does not consist of things, but of #structures and #relationships. His moderate ontic #structural realism combines #quantum physics, #metaphysics, and #consciousness.

📺 https://youtu.be/tUcT4a-UNr0

🔗 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2026/02/27/struktur-die-wahre-realitaet/

#Holism #QuantumMechanics #PhilosophyOfScience #QuantumHumeanism #Zoomposium #PhilosophyOfPhysics #PhilosophyOfMind

🧩 “Is #structure the true #reality?”🌐

In the current #Zoomposium, we discuss with #MichaelEsfeld why #reality does not consist of things, but of #structures and #relationships. His moderate ontic #structural realism combines #quantum physics, #metaphysics, and #consciousness.

📺 https://youtu.be/tUcT4a-UNr0

🔗 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2026/02/27/struktur-die-wahre-realitaet/

#Holism #QuantumMechanics #PhilosophyOfScience #QuantumHumeanism #Zoomposium #PhilosophyOfPhysics #PhilosophyOfMind

🧩 “Is #structure the true #reality?”🌐

In the current #Zoomposium, we discuss with #MichaelEsfeld why #reality does not consist of things, but of #structures and #relationships. His moderate ontic #structural realism combines #quantum physics, #metaphysics, and #consciousness.

📺 https://youtu.be/tUcT4a-UNr0

🔗 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2026/02/27/struktur-die-wahre-realitaet/

#Holism #QuantumMechanics #PhilosophyOfScience #QuantumHumeanism #Zoomposium #PhilosophyOfPhysics #PhilosophyOfMind

🧩 “Is #structure the true #reality?”🌐

In the current #Zoomposium, we discuss with #MichaelEsfeld why #reality does not consist of things, but of #structures and #relationships. His moderate ontic #structural realism combines #quantum physics, #metaphysics, and #consciousness.

📺 https://youtu.be/tUcT4a-UNr0

🔗 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2026/02/27/struktur-die-wahre-realitaet/

#Holism #QuantumMechanics #PhilosophyOfScience #QuantumHumeanism #Zoomposium #PhilosophyOfPhysics #PhilosophyOfMind

Society has lost its direction. We are now driving blind, and the reason is reductionism. We’ve become so obsessed with breaking the world into tiny parts that we’ve forgotten how the whole thing actually hangs together.

https://www.ocrampal.com/too-narrow-to-be-wise-the-tunnel-vision-trap-of-modern-expertise/

#SystemsThinking #Reductionism #Holism

Society has lost its direction. We are now driving blind, and the reason is reductionism. We’ve become so obsessed with breaking the world into tiny parts that we’ve forgotten how the whole thing actually hangs together.

https://www.ocrampal.com/too-narrow-to-be-wise-the-tunnel-vision-trap-of-modern-expertise/

#SystemsThinking #Reductionism #Holism

– Are you part of the problem or the solution?
– Both.
– ...??

We’re all in the same system that created the problem. That’s the uncomfortable truth. Here’s the paradox:
– Systems regularly face challenges they weren’t designed to handle
– Yet we keep using reductionism—treating entities as just sums of parts while ignoring how those parts interact

Reductionism searches for the root cause. But changing a single thing in one team can affect the other team in surprising ways. Holistic thinking reveals that there may be no single root, but cascading effects in which one problem triggers others, compounding until the system destabilizes.

Next time you hear "root cause," ask: what if there isn’t one?

#systemsthinking #complexsystems #holism #organizationaldesign

– Are you part of the problem or the solution?
– Both.
– ...??

We’re all in the same system that created the problem. That’s the uncomfortable truth. Here’s the paradox:
– Systems regularly face challenges they weren’t designed to handle
– Yet we keep using reductionism—treating entities as just sums of parts while ignoring how those parts interact

Reductionism searches for the root cause. But changing a single thing in one team can affect the other team in surprising ways. Holistic thinking reveals that there may be no single root, but cascading effects in which one problem triggers others, compounding until the system destabilizes.

Next time you hear "root cause," ask: what if there isn’t one?

#systemsthinking #complexsystems #holism #organizationaldesign

NOCTURNE SONG* BY RUSH

#Holism

#seeds
https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/bija __

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEqTo8lDivs

*¿:https://www.rush.com/songs/nocturne/ __

https://youtube.com/watch?v=3QZUd6-WPiE

#Halflight
#Light

#Spacetime

#HolyNows

#Space #Time

Holism and Complementary Medicine; Origins and Principles by Vincent Di Stefano, 2025

This popular text outlines the history and philosophy behind holistic therapies and examines the role they have to play in contemporary health systems.

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#holism
#ComplementaryMedicine

Holism and Complementary Medicine; Origins and Principles by Vincent Di Stefano, 2025

This popular text outlines the history and philosophy behind holistic therapies and examines the role they have to play in contemporary health systems.

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#holism
#ComplementaryMedicine

Hashtag The Chalice and the Blade #largernows

🍷 🗡️

#TheChaliceandtheBlade #TonePoem #Adolescence
#Adulting

Hello
#TheRealWealthofNations
¿:https:// www .rush .com/songs/anthem/ __

https://www.rush.com/songs/anthem/ - -

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xBdUSueSh9s&pp=0gcJCf8Ao7VqN5tD

#Theatre ¿( #WhyTheatre ) #StarTrek #Holism #Exemplar #TheLargerNow
#onelove

#Words

#Mind #Music

A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

So long as the body is affected through the mind, no audacious device, even of the most manifestly dishonest character, can fail of producing occasional good to those who yield it an implicit or even a partial faith.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Lecture (1842), “Homœopathy and Its Kindred Delusions,” Boston Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #homeopathy #medicine #body #holistic #holism #mind #placebo #suggestibility

On Tyranny

#democracy |

Timothy Snyder :
https://youtube.com/watch?v=sTtFTo4lJ14&list=PLhZxrogyToZsllfRqQllyuFNbT-ER7TAu&index=3&pp=iAQB

🔴⛵️🟢

#Red_Right_Return
https://youtube.com/watch?v=M8C-0ySQ4UM&pp=0gcJCdQJAYcqIYzv

#holism

#TrumpCrimeSyndicate #TheConEvilOfAmericaFirst

Red Right(s) Return

🔴⛵️🟢

Hello
#Red_Right_Return
https://youtube.com/watch?v=PxEvaKMUi5E

#holism #democracy

I wonder if I'm missing something, here.

If tariffs put the brakes on global trade, resulting in inefficient markets with reduced sales and less transport of goods, isn't that a favorable outcome? An outcome that better avoids pollution and other unjust external costs?

In the long run, of course, such costs are best addressed by tough environmental, labor, and safety regulations. Yet aren't Mr. Trump's tariff games a suitable temporary remedy? In light of how hard it is to get nations to fully implement tough regulations—?

Regardless of Mr. Trump maybe neither wanting it nor considering it, market contractions always decrease externalities, right? If so, then by blocking commerce, Mr. Trump necessarily would block external harms too. Which have kind of been out of control for a long time.

Unfettered trade and consumerism are bad. And tariffs prevent unfettered trade and consumerism, however clumsily and impermanently. Heh. Likewise, I imagine Mother Nature is elated whenever we humans propose or engage in trade wars. ☺️

Therefore, I don't think I'll be complaining about any current tariff fiascos (cf. the article provided below) since a depression is not imminent, as of now; and slowing down our global economy would likely improve our world overall.

#economics
#externalities
#holism
#sacrifice

https://reason.com/2025/04/24/over-1500-economists-agree-trumps-tariffs-are-terrible/

I wonder if I'm missing something, here.

If tariffs put the brakes on global trade, resulting in inefficient markets with reduced sales and less transport of goods, isn't that a favorable outcome? An outcome that better avoids pollution and other unjust external costs?

In the long run, of course, such costs are best addressed by tough environmental, labor, and safety regulations. Yet aren't Mr. Trump's tariff games a suitable temporary remedy? In light of how hard it is to get nations to fully implement tough regulations—?

Regardless of Mr. Trump maybe neither wanting it nor considering it, market contractions always decrease externalities, right? If so, then by blocking commerce, Mr. Trump necessarily would block external harms too. Which have kind of been out of control for a long time.

Unfettered trade and consumerism are bad. And tariffs prevent unfettered trade and consumerism, however clumsily and impermanently. Heh. Likewise, I imagine Mother Nature is elated whenever we humans propose or engage in trade wars. ☺️

Therefore, I don't think I'll be complaining about any current tariff fiascos (cf. the article provided below) since a depression is not imminent, as of now; and slowing down our global economy would likely improve our world overall.

#economics
#externalities
#holism
#sacrifice

https://reason.com/2025/04/24/over-1500-economists-agree-trumps-tariffs-are-terrible/

#MaxMore - What Does It Mean to Be a #Person?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eaIC216N0Q

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #Mind #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #Consciousness #Memory #Memories #Personhood #Values #Parfitt #DerekParfitt #Personality #Soul #Psychology #Identity #PersonalIdentity #Holism #Reductionism #Dualism #Brain #Substrate #SubstanceDualism #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#MaxMore - What Does It Mean to Be a #Person?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eaIC216N0Q

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #Mind #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #Consciousness #Memory #Memories #Personhood #Values #Parfitt #DerekParfitt #Personality #Soul #Psychology #Identity #PersonalIdentity #Holism #Reductionism #Dualism #Brain #Substrate #SubstanceDualism #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#SamirOkasa - #Reductionism and #Emergence: Key #Concepts in #Biology and #Science

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khjTxDFYTaE

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #PhilosophyOfBiology #Metaphysics #StrongEmergence #WeakEmergence #Evolution #MolecularBiology #Systems #SystemsBiology #Holism #Ecology #Ecosystem #Ecosystems #Supervenience #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#SamirOkasa - #Reductionism and #Emergence: Key #Concepts in #Biology and #Science

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khjTxDFYTaE

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #PhilosophyOfBiology #Metaphysics #StrongEmergence #WeakEmergence #Evolution #MolecularBiology #Systems #SystemsBiology #Holism #Ecology #Ecosystem #Ecosystems #Supervenience #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#IanBarbour - Why is #Emergence Significant?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3JwhKGcGUo

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #Reductionism #Physics #StrongEmergence #WeakEmergence #TopDownCausation #TopDownCausality #God #Theology #Theism #Atheism #Materialism #Determinism #Freedom #FreeWill #Mind #Body #Dualism #Holism #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#IanBarbour - Why is #Emergence Significant?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3JwhKGcGUo

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #Reductionism #Physics #StrongEmergence #WeakEmergence #TopDownCausation #TopDownCausality #God #Theology #Theism #Atheism #Materialism #Determinism #Freedom #FreeWill #Mind #Body #Dualism #Holism #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

It all started with a dream.
One night Tansley had an unsettling nightmare that involved him shooting his wife.

So he did the natural thing and started reading the works of Sigmund #Freud, and even went to be analysed by Freud himself.

Then Tansley came up with an extraordinary theory.
He took Freud's idea that the human brain is like an electrical machine – a network around which energy flowed – and argued that the same thing was true in nature.

That underneath the bewildering complexity of the natural world were interconnected systems around which energy also flowed.

He coined a name for them. He called them #ecosystems.

But Tansley went further. He said that the world was composed at every level of systems, and what's more, all these systems had a natural desire to stabilise themselves.

He grandly called it "the great universal law of equilibrium".

Everything, he wrote, from the human mind to nature to even human societies – all are tending towards a natural state of equilibrium.

Tansley admitted he had no real evidence for this.

And what he was really doing was taking an engineering concept of systems and networks and projecting it on to the natural world, turning nature into a machine.

But the idea, and the term "ecosystem", stuck.

But then Field Marshal Smuts came up with an even grander idea of nature. And Tansley hated it.

Field Marshal Smuts was one of the most powerful men in the British empire.

He ruled South Africa for the British empire and he exercised power ruthlessly.

When the Hottentots refused to pay their dog licences Smuts sent in planes to bomb them.
As a result the black people hated him.

But Smuts also saw himself as a philosopher – and he had a habit of walking up to the tops of mountains, taking off all his clothes, and dreaming up new theories about how nature and the world worked.

This culminated in 1926 when Smuts created his own philosophy.
He called it #Holism.

It said that the world was composed of lots of "wholes"
– the small wholes all evolving and fitting together into larger wholes until they all came together into one big whole
– a giant natural system that would find its own stability if all the wholes were in the right places.

#Einstein liked the theory, and it became one of the big ideas that lots of right-thinking intellectuals wrote about in the 1930s.
Even the #King became fascinated by it.

But Tansley attacked.

He publicly accused Smuts of what he called "the abuse of vegetational concepts"
– which at the time was considered very rude.

He said that Smuts had created a mystical philosophy of nature and its self-organisation in order to oppress black people.

Or what Tansley maliciously called the "less exalted wholes".

And Tansley wasn't alone.
Others, including HG #Wells, pointed out that really what Smuts was doing was using a scientific theory about order in nature to justify a particular order in society
– in this case the British empire.

Because it was clear that the global self-regulating system that Smuts described looked exactly like the empire.

And at the same time Smuts made a notorious speech saying that blacks should be segregated from whites in South Africa.

The implication was clear:
that blacks should stay in their natural "whole" and not disturb the system.

It clearly prefigured the arguments for apartheid.

#hierarchy #leaders #control #feedback #stabilise #Arthur #Tansley #Jan #Smuts

It all started with a dream.
One night Tansley had an unsettling nightmare that involved him shooting his wife.

So he did the natural thing and started reading the works of Sigmund #Freud, and even went to be analysed by Freud himself.

Then Tansley came up with an extraordinary theory.
He took Freud's idea that the human brain is like an electrical machine – a network around which energy flowed – and argued that the same thing was true in nature.

That underneath the bewildering complexity of the natural world were interconnected systems around which energy also flowed.

He coined a name for them. He called them #ecosystems.

But Tansley went further. He said that the world was composed at every level of systems, and what's more, all these systems had a natural desire to stabilise themselves.

He grandly called it "the great universal law of equilibrium".

Everything, he wrote, from the human mind to nature to even human societies – all are tending towards a natural state of equilibrium.

Tansley admitted he had no real evidence for this.

And what he was really doing was taking an engineering concept of systems and networks and projecting it on to the natural world, turning nature into a machine.

But the idea, and the term "ecosystem", stuck.

But then Field Marshal Smuts came up with an even grander idea of nature. And Tansley hated it.

Field Marshal Smuts was one of the most powerful men in the British empire.

He ruled South Africa for the British empire and he exercised power ruthlessly.

When the Hottentots refused to pay their dog licences Smuts sent in planes to bomb them.
As a result the black people hated him.

But Smuts also saw himself as a philosopher – and he had a habit of walking up to the tops of mountains, taking off all his clothes, and dreaming up new theories about how nature and the world worked.

This culminated in 1926 when Smuts created his own philosophy.
He called it #Holism.

It said that the world was composed of lots of "wholes"
– the small wholes all evolving and fitting together into larger wholes until they all came together into one big whole
– a giant natural system that would find its own stability if all the wholes were in the right places.

#Einstein liked the theory, and it became one of the big ideas that lots of right-thinking intellectuals wrote about in the 1930s.
Even the #King became fascinated by it.

But Tansley attacked.

He publicly accused Smuts of what he called "the abuse of vegetational concepts"
– which at the time was considered very rude.

He said that Smuts had created a mystical philosophy of nature and its self-organisation in order to oppress black people.

Or what Tansley maliciously called the "less exalted wholes".

And Tansley wasn't alone.
Others, including HG #Wells, pointed out that really what Smuts was doing was using a scientific theory about order in nature to justify a particular order in society
– in this case the British empire.

Because it was clear that the global self-regulating system that Smuts described looked exactly like the empire.

And at the same time Smuts made a notorious speech saying that blacks should be segregated from whites in South Africa.

The implication was clear:
that blacks should stay in their natural "whole" and not disturb the system.

It clearly prefigured the arguments for apartheid.

#hierarchy #leaders #control #feedback #stabilise #Arthur #Tansley #Jan #Smuts

The myth of self-regulating systems

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/may/29/adam-curtis-ecosystems-tansley-smuts
#AdamCurtis #selfregulatingsystems #ecosystem #Holism #badsciencethatsticks

The myth of self-regulating systems

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/may/29/adam-curtis-ecosystems-tansley-smuts
#AdamCurtis #selfregulatingsystems #ecosystem #Holism #badsciencethatsticks

#LouisCaruana - #CriticalRealism in #Science and #Theology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqYI28g2n8Q

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Metaphysics #Realism #AntiRealism #Knowledge #Solipsism #Pragmatism #CommonSense #Holism #Naturalism #Religion #CharlesSandersPeirce #Peirce #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#LouisCaruana - #CriticalRealism in #Science and #Theology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqYI28g2n8Q

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Metaphysics #Realism #AntiRealism #Knowledge #Solipsism #Pragmatism #CommonSense #Holism #Naturalism #Religion #CharlesSandersPeirce #Peirce #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#LouisCaruana - How Do We #Know What We Know?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dtS6e6T3HA

#Philosophy #Epistemology #Knowledge #Knowing #Kant #JTB #JustifiedTrueBelief #Evidence #Science #PhilosophyOfScience #Observation #Experiment #Testimony #Objectivity #Subjectivity #Religion #Theology #Holism #God #Falsification #Popper #KarlPopper #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#LouisCaruana - How Do We #Know What We Know?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dtS6e6T3HA

#Philosophy #Epistemology #Knowledge #Knowing #Kant #JTB #JustifiedTrueBelief #Evidence #Science #PhilosophyOfScience #Observation #Experiment #Testimony #Objectivity #Subjectivity #Religion #Theology #Holism #God #Falsification #Popper #KarlPopper #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#NeilTheise - How Do #Complexity and #Emergence Create a #Cosmos?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLRynSjBD9M

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #PhilosophyOfBiology #Biology #SelfOrganisation #SelfOrganization #StemCells #ComplexityTheory #Human #HumanBeing #WesternMedicine #Hierarchy #Holism #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#NeilTheise - How Do #Complexity and #Emergence Create a #Cosmos?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLRynSjBD9M

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #PhilosophyOfBiology #Biology #SelfOrganisation #SelfOrganization #StemCells #ComplexityTheory #Human #HumanBeing #WesternMedicine #Hierarchy #Holism #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#StephenChorover - What's the Essence of #Consciousness?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoFB_B35IBo&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #Mind #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #Reductionism #Holism #Neuroscience #Science #ScientificMethod #Environment #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#StephenChorover - What's the Essence of #Consciousness?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoFB_B35IBo&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #Mind #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #Reductionism #Holism #Neuroscience #Science #ScientificMethod #Environment #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#SystemsInnovation - #Causality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_ykeBfd5ds&ab_channel=SystemsInnovation

#Philosophy #Science #Systems #SystemsThinking #CauseAndEffect #Cause #Effect #Physics #Induction #Hume #DavidHume #ConstantConjunction #LinearCausality #NonLinearCausality #Feedback #Holism #HolisticSynthetic #TopDown #BottomUp #Emergence #Emergentism #Reduction #Reductivism

#SystemsInnovation - #Causality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_ykeBfd5ds&ab_channel=SystemsInnovation

#Philosophy #Science #Systems #SystemsThinking #CauseAndEffect #Cause #Effect #Physics #Induction #Hume #DavidHume #ConstantConjunction #LinearCausality #NonLinearCausality #Feedback #Holism #HolisticSynthetic #TopDown #BottomUp #Emergence #Emergentism #Reduction #Reductivism

Everything (every event) is related to everything else (every other event). #holism

“This idea has led to the concept of holism in human behaviour, physical anthropology, and social psychology and has implications for the way we approach our own environment.”

https://wholepeople.com/what-is-holism/