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The five words for describing a system
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Elements, connections, boundary, purpose, feedback.
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Why does the boundary matter?
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Everything outside it is treated as fixed, so it decides which solutions the analysis can even consider.
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How do you find a system's purpose?
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Read it from what the system reliably produces, not from what its owner says it is for.
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Define: feedback
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Output returning as input, so the system learns from behaviour it caused — which is why systems drift.
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