Based on the groundbreaking work of Fritof Capra, the 1970's classic 'The Turning Point'- we begin to see the world as controlled by two points of view.  One of these ways of looking at the world is additive, noting the inter-connectedness of the world, a holistic worldview.  The other way of perceiving life is based on a mechanistic worldview of dividing the parts of the natural world in order to evaluate and comprehend it.

This reductionist philosophy has many limitations to it in everyday life because it neglects the synthesis of all the components it tends to label, and in the process forgets about a property called synergy.  Synergy is the fact that organisms themselves display a property of being more than just the sum of the parts of our bodies.  An example of this is the mind.  Our Minds are incredibly complex, amazing pieces of quantum machinery that are not physically there.   The mind is a synergistic effect of the parts of the body working together to create something more than just the added up parts that make it.  The synergistic effect of our bodies and brains working together creates the senses, the bodily processes and the process of generating thought and new ideas.  Reductionist thinking is inherently flawed from this point of view and it is no wonder that reductionists have trouble coming up with solutions to today's pressing issues.  There are many more amazing things to be discovered by this paradigm changing book and video.