Ideally isolated system

But it is the extreme naked weirdness of the past, the residue of history as itself a process of becoming, that in turn demands the appreciation of the equally extreme possibilities of becoming in the here and now.   

A standard object is an arrangement of variations in proximity to some set of qualities that are understood to be an object sharing a number of functional characteristics. Each standard object is the result of what Whitehead called an ‘ideally isolated system.”  

 

Behavioral psychology considers the individual as a system connected to the world whose evolution is determined by his environment, which acts on him through the messages that he receives from the inert world or from other individuals, who, according to the existential thesis, remain as alien to him as the external world.