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Systems Laws
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The following is a set of Systems Laws [Clemson 1984] considered valid for all complex systems.
Law 1: Self-Organizing Systems Law. Complex systems organize themselves; The characteristic structural and behavioral patterns in a complex system are primarily a result of the interactions among the system parts.
Law 1A: Complex systems have basins of stability separated by thresholds of instability.
Law 2: Feedback. The output of a complex system is dominated by the feedback, and within wide variations the input is irrelevant.
- All attempts to develop the system from outside are really inputs to the system, which law two indicates, are to a large extent, irrelevant
Law 2A: All outputs that are important to the system will have associated feedback loops.
- Any desired result that has no systemic feedback loop will not be achieved or any system that lacks a feedback loop for a desired output is pathologically defective.
- Feedback loops are one of the major elements that make self-organizing systems work the way they do.
Law 3: Law of Requisite Variety. Given a system and some regulator of that system, the amount of regulation attainable is absolutely limited by the variety of the regulator.
Law 3A: Most of the regulation of a very complex system is achieved through the interaction of the parts (i.e. one part acts to regulate some other part).
[edit] References
- Complex Systems
- Clemson, Barry (1984) Cybernetics: A New Management Tool. Abacus Press
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