[sewercake]

I love reading about Systems Theory. It's exciting, and, as other commenter's have mentioned, full of 'aha' moments. But, concretely, what has it done? Where has it gone? I am not being facetious, I'm genuinely curious what concrete benefits, systems, decisions, etcetera, have had 'systems thinking' as the catalyst.

Part of me thinks that many articles and ideas floating around the space are simply over abstractions, like saying the connections between neurons look similar to galaxies, and our universe. It sounds profound, and clearly, there is _some_ pattern there, but then, what does that pattern give us? Is it predictive? Descriptive? Or just simply a pattern with no use outside of increasing 'meaningfulness'.