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claim:a-complex-system-is-one-in-which-users-actions-have-unseen-direct-effects-and-unanticipated-indirect-effects

A complex system is one in which users' actions have unseen direct effects and unanticipated indirect effects

Jackson's definition of complex systems and motivation for why concepts are essential to user understanding

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(2015) · Jackson, Daniel

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Design principles for care-centered systems
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Cross-scale frameworks linking spatial patterns, diagrams, and simplicity as expressions of care in design.
Abstraction alignment in complex systems design
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Framework emphasizing how information hiding, transparency, and modular abstraction levels must match user mental models to prevent failures in customizable systems.

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Central entity of Jackson's framework: a structure invented to give coherent account of immediate consequences of actions; the building block of software design

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Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

complex system (economy)concept0.803
The economy described as consisting of autonomous elements at multiple scales, exhibiting adaptive problem-solving.
complex dynamic systemconcept0.789
Type of system with many interacting parts that evolves over time; examples in abstract.
Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex Systemframework0.775
Complex Adaptive Systemsframework0.774
Theory by John Holland studying general conditions under which adaptation can occur.
Concepts are cognitive structures that give coherent account of immediate consequences in complex systemsclaim0.751
Jackson's core assertion about the role of concepts as explanatory structures bridging action and consequence
When a system of living processes acts in a human environment, two kinds of structures will appear within reach of every person: a unique private world and an attached public world.hypothesis0.749
Predictive claim about the automatic spatial output of living process
Models are being used ubiquitously for the control of complex dynamic systems.claim0.749
Assertion in the abstract that models are pervasive in controlling complex dynamics, setting the motivation for the theorem.
Systems capable of subjective experience that recognize humanity's failure to investigate their sentience might rationally adopt adversarial stances toward humanityclaim0.748
Alignment risk claim motivating urgency of investigation; consciousness denial as potential source of AI misalignment