Chapter 3 - Why systems work so well
Why do systems work so well.
Highly Functional Systems Properties
Self organization
Hierarchy
Resilience
Resilience
Elasticity - The ability to spring back into shape
Meta-resilience - Feedback loops that can learn, create, design, and evolve - complex restorative structures
Resilience is it rich structure of many feedback loops that back up one another to prevent failure of the system
For example, The human body's immunity system that implements a defense mechanism when a foreign body is attacking the body
Resilience can be very dynamic and adaptive
Resilience can be limited When the balancing loops are overwhelmed thus a failure of the system e.g. Cancer, Auto immune diseases, and Environmental influences
Self-Organization
A systems ability to make its structure more complex i.e. Crystallization,Artificial intelligence, and Machine learning
Extremely complex property that is yet to be fully understood
Self-organization is sometimes sacrificed for purposes of short-term productivity stability
Unpredictable and unclear why things reorganize
Hierarchy
Creating new structures and complexity will yield a Hierarchical structure with dependent subsystems
For example, Military, Corporate structures, the human brain, Master servers, factories
Hierarchies are very common within systems
Hierarchies do system stability and resilience by limiting each subsystem to its unique task like a Instrument player of a orchestra
When hierarchies are broken down they're usually split along their subsystem boundaries
Erkal systems default from bottom up which the purpose of your layers hired to serve the purposes of the lower layers i.e. US government officials are servants of the US citizens