Definition of Thing Thinking

What is Thing Thinking?

A belief that the world is composed of discrete things and not systems. The desire to see everything as a thing (e.g. creativity).

Corrective: systems thinking, dynamic systems theory (DST).

See Emergence, Systems, Process, Feedback and Feedforward.

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