“Siloed thinking created many of our problems with inequality, injustice and planetary damage.”Ī complex, non-linear, systemic view of life sees the whole as a constant interaction between the small and the large: diverse parts that are cooperating and competing at the same time. They are systemic problems, which means that they are all interconnected and interdependent.” The ecologists Fritjof Capra and Pier Luigi Luisi argue that “the major problems of our time - energy, the environment, climate change, food security, financial security - cannot be understood in isolation. A new collective mental map is needed, one that moves away from classical Newtonian science, with its linear and mechanical worldview, toward a systems-view of life. Silos make group collective action more difficult nation-states, tribes, communities and groups have different ways of knowing and different repositories of knowledge. As behavioral economist Daniel Kahnemann put it: “We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.” When the parts do not fit or work together, the system may break down. But one unfortunate result is that silos produce a partial perspective from specialist knowledge very few take a system-wide view on how the parts are related to the whole. Specialization produces efficiency in production and output. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again.” As Alvin Toffler, an American writer and futurist, wrote in his 1984 foreword to the chemist Ilya Prigogine’s classic book “Order out of Chaos”: “One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split-up of problems into their smallest possible components. GEORGE TOWN, Malaysia - Modern science arose by breaking down complex problems into their parts.
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