Our Philosophy
Our philosophy is rooted in the belief that it is difficult to understand human behavior without understanding the individual's relationship with self and with surroundings. At this point in time, human beings can only exist if they exist with others. Individual units (in this case human beings) are defined by the whole or environment (for example, body or social systems) and the whole is defined by the individual units. As the unit defines the whole, and the whole defines the unit, it is extremely difficult to (1) predict behavior and (2) delineate boundaries between the unit and the whole.
It is difficult to predict behavior because when the whole influences the unit to change, the unit changes. It follows that the newly changed unit will have a different influence on the whole due to its changed status. The different influence on the whole will create a new change in the whole, which will then emmit a different influence on the unit. The point is that the unit and the whole are continually changing because of their interdependency. For example, a baby develops communication skills, for example, by acquiring new skills that are driven by her environment and by her body. The changes in her communication skills (for example, smiling) influence the environment to change (for example, caretaker simles back enthusiastically or laughs in response). In turn, the change in the environment will then cause the smiling in the infant to change to laughter.
All in all, it is difficult to draw boundaries between the unit and the whole because they cannot exist without each other and hence their singular porperties cannot be known by isolating the unit from the whole and vice versa. Pursuing this philosophy, this online magazine will aim to apply diverse knowledge from multiple fields and genres that illuminate the connection or non-differentiation between the unit and the whole. Hence, you will find that we will write about the mind-body connection or the mind-economic connection, to give but two examples.