How can systems accommodate change without abandoning them mid-development?

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• How can we build systems that are easily changeable when requirements are unclear at project start?question0.785
  Central problem driving the pattern language, arising from user requirement that system design be fluid.
• We want to build systems which can be enhanced and modified in a piecemeal fashion. This is necessary because the requirements for systems inevitably change, sometimes even before they are deployed for the very first time.quote0.768
  Opening statement of the GARDEN OF APPLICATIONS pattern, articulating the core force.
• "A system can minimize free-energy by changing its configuration to change the way it samples the environment, or to change its expectations. These changes correspond to action and perception respectively."concept0.759
  Load-bearing definition of how action and perception implement free energy minimization.
• Systems do not necessarily require master plans in order for development to begin; with proper meta-constructs, development can proceed in organic fashion.claim0.759
  Core thesis that architectural flexibility through meta-constructs enables incremental development without complete upfront design.
• Any system that persists must minimise surprisal, thereby gathering evidence for its own generative model.quote0.756
  Opening sentence defining self-evidencing.
• It is precisely those innovations which attempt to change the system of processes most deeply, that are hardest for society to accept, and therefore hardest to implement.claim0.755
• The core of all living process is step-by-step adaptation — the modification and evolution which happen gradually in response to information about the degree to which the emerging structure supports the whole.claim0.753
  Definition of the essential mechanism of living structure formation.
• Any system that persists must minimise surprisal.claim0.752
  Foundational claim derived from the Free Energy Principle, setting up self-evidencing.