What is the opposite of Holism?

[darklingfox]

While learning more about current dividers and parallel circuitry as well as voltage dividers and series circuits; something occurred to me. In a current divider circuit, the value of total resistance is less than the sum of the individual resistances. In fact, it is less than the value of the lowest resistor

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[defiler_wyrm]

Solipsism?

[darklingfox]

Hmm.. I think with solipsism there wouldn't be anything to add.

[defiler_wyrm]

Isn't that the point? Love, after all, isn't the opposite/inverse of hate: neutrality is. Likewise, solipsism is the inverse of holism. It's the belief/philosophy that nothing outside the self exists, therefore the individual is the only thing that matters - nothing can be greater than the one part.

[darklingfox]

I would say that love is the inverse of hate. Apathy is the inverse of emotion in general--be it love, hate, disgust, etc. 0 would not be the inverse of 1 on a number line. -1 would be. If you add the (additive) inverses, it would give you 0, which would be neutrality.

Solipsism can include holism inside of itself. Since nothing else exists outside of your own existance, then yours is the only one that matters. But even if you are the only sentience that exists, you may still be greater than the sum of your parts. Examining each piece of your psyche by itself may not be able to explain the emergent properties that occur when they are all combined into a whole.

What I'm looking for is the -1 to my 1. The thing that says that when you add up all of the parts into a whole; the whole is somehow less than all of its parts combined.