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Feel strange as i call myself a system thinker *because* i believed that a grand model is not possible and that models are at best local (in all dimensions). That said, i may just live in different circles than the author ;)
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Maybe something like “we can understand and control complexity if we just use better math” vs “the world is so complex and indefinite that it can be understood only partially, and only influenced, not controlled, so we’ll get better outcomes if we accept that”?
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You’re getting at a more important distinction obliquely: how much a controller needs to “know” about thing being controlled. Two seminal results. The internal model principle in control theory (engineering) and Ashby principle of requisite variety, both state basically that.
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