ABSTRACT
Holistic systems thinking is described as viewing a system from different perspectives (Kasser and Mackley, 2008). However, the human brain does not seem to be configured for viewing anything from different perspectives at the same time since according to Anderson we can only pay attention to one cognitively demanding task at a time (Anderson, 1995); yet the brain does seem to be able to perform a number of tasks at the same time. The cognitive psychology model of the human brain as an information processing system uses an executive function to control the transfer of information between short term and long term memory and perform other tasks, but the literature seems to have little to say about how the executive function works; see summary in (Miyake, et aI., 2000).
