In the systems view, the so-called "parts" blend into the background, and what we see emerge is like a family of relationships acting as a whole. A whole that cannot be seen by looking at the parts.
As a systems model, it illustrates the process of emergence and organization. Simple, but it works.
Quote by Erich Jantsch, "The Self Organizing Universe" (p. 24)
The new science of systemics includes a different way of looking a things, ultimately, a different world-view, This new world-view has roots extending deep into ontology, the nature of Being. While in one sense, systems science is a middle aged science having emerged just after WW2 in the writings of von Bertalanffy and Weiner, the philosophcal foundation of systemics can be found as far back as five thousand years ago.
Systemics is simply perceiving the realtionships (interactions) of the parts, usually something very different from the parts to start with. To put it simply, things can be perceived as separately existing entities having such and such characteristics; or those things can be seen as relationships existing as wholes, that is, in terms of what things are doing (interactions). What is significant here is the observaton that properties of the whole cannot be determined by an analysis of the parts. Analyse this black and white, what did it tell yu about this writing? Systemics is looking at the parts as if they are working together (Synergy) It is seeing properties of the whole that the parts are blind to and as such emerges as a science of wholeness...