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This Concept Map, created with IHMC CmapTools, has information related to: Systems, elements characterized by visible, tangible things that form its physical structure, purpose characterized by behavior, action and (to some degree) intent, an interconnected set of elements that is coherently organized in a way that achieves something includes elements, System highly functional systems are resilient, the capacity of a system to make its own structure; ability to learn, diversify, complexify, evolve example seed sprouting; baby learning to speak; neighborhood comes together to oppose toxic waste dump;, System highly functional systems are self-organizing, balancing loops; goal-seeking; stability-seeking examples coffee intake and energy level; China's one-child policy; infanticide, cannibalism;, visible, tangible things that form its physical structure example roots, trunk, branches, leaves, specialized cells, an interconnected set of elements that is coherently organized in a way that achieves something includes purpose, organized in subsystems; typically relationships within each subsystem are denser and stronger than relationships between subsystems; typically evolve from bottom up in that purpose of upper layers is to serve the purposes of the lower layers example people in the same dept talk to each other more; cells that constitute the liver are in closer communication with each other than cells in the heart; Tobler's First Law of Geography;, flows, relationships, messages that holds elements together (physical or info) example drop in pressure alllows roots to take on more water; loss of water pressure due to dry soil signals leaves to close pores conserve water, hierarchical defined as organized in subsystems; typically relationships within each subsystem are denser and stronger than relationships between subsystems; typically evolve from bottom up in that purpose of upper layers is to serve the purposes of the lower layers, self-organizing defined as the capacity of a system to make its own structure; ability to learn, diversify, complexify, evolve, resilient defined as the ability to recover quickly; resilience as a plateau which the system can play; resilient systems have a big plateau;, feedback loops defined as consistent behavior pattern over a long period of time: when changes in a stock affect the flows into or out of that same stock, an interconnected set of elements that is coherently organized in a way that achieves something includes interconnections, the ability to recover quickly; resilience as a plateau which the system can play; resilient systems have a big plateau; example human body (re-allocating blood; repair rips; speed up/slow down metabolism; compensate for missing or defective parts); ecosystems (multiple species holding each other in check); production and bovine growth hormone; JIT deliveries of products; intensive forest management in Europe;, interconnections characterized by flows, relationships, messages that holds elements together (physical or info), self-organizing requires freedom of experimentation; certain amount of disorder, feedback loops types balancing loops; goal-seeking; stability-seeking