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).

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Additional Glossary Terms Related to Thing Thinking

Emergence, Systems, Process, Feedback & Feedforward, Thing, Relations or Relationality, Dynamics

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For More On Thing Thinking

• Vol 184: Three Mistakes in Considering Technology (from the Perspective of Creative Processes)
• Vol 105: On Systems: Whose Systems? How Implicit Atomism Makes Systems in Its Image
• Vol 56: “A Picture Held Us Captive…” On Embracing Process
• Vol 259: On Missing Creativity for Inevitability - Pt VII
• Vol 19: The Style Guide