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You may be confusing the descriptive modeling and synthesis sides of control. There’s always feedback loops in any natural system. Trivially and tautologically everything is a control system. You may or may not be able to acquire control authority that’s all.
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Thanks for at least taking a look. Control theory still seems a reasonable way to try and ascertain control, even if just at the conceptual level, instead of just assuming it. Fine specification might be asking too much, but modeling possible control relationships seems valid.
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Read Dictator’s Handbook. That’s close to the simplest possibly control theoretic model of politics. Could actually be coded up as a simulation.
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Thanks for the recommendation. I'll take a look. (Also, my intuition is that most identifiable control relations will likely be trivial and tautological, as you say. That control is not specifiable in the most signficant situations, even conceptually, seems an interesting point.)
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