Fascia and Complex Adaptive Systems

The science of Complex Adaptive Systems gets at that whole 'the sum is greater than its parts' dynamic. Beauty. Life. Weather. The human entity. We can look at emergent properties of those systems, and there is lots to study – good science. But the one thing you can't do is chop systems up and study the parts separately. For instance, let's just look at the angle of that painting's right corner and analyze the beauty. Let's kill that muskrat and chop it up and then figure out what life is. Let's separate thunder from lightning and see what's left.

The important example of connection for our purposes is muscles and fascia. Sure, memorize all those separate muscles. That's not useless! It does draw your attention to separate mechanics, however. If you want to understand movement and interconnectivity, and could examine only one thing, I would recommend the amazing interconnectivity of the fascia. For specificity: maybe muscles. To see the body as a whole, attend to the fascia.