Systems theory is quietly reshaping how science understands the world. This video is a complete introduction to the systems-theoretical perspective — what it is, why it’s revolutionary, and how it challenges the reductionist thinking that has dominated science for 300 years.
That’s the thing tho, it looks like it was never a puzzle after all. The Newtonian era model of “the universe is working perfectly like a clock” didn’t turn out to be a viable model to explain everything, because the messiness of quantum physics blew it away. Which is not messiness really, it’s just very contrary to how mechanical clocks work. Something like that.
For me the example with the funnel [around 12:20] worked great. If I got it right the further down you are the less things are to bridge, the further up you go the more parameters come into play.