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The Virtual
Stabilized Assemblages
Relates to {{Assemblage-Geography}}
Sensitive to Initial Conditions
Rhizomes
All points are interconnected and interdependent, unfolding in a nonlinear manner with no central source of authority.
Requisite Variety
Preferential Attachment
Open Scaffolds
Negative Feedback
Multiple Equilibria
Early versions of systems theory assumed that systems could be 'optimized' to a single condition. CAS analysis assumes that more than one system state can satisfy optimizing criteria, and so the system is able to gravitate to multiple equilibria.
Modularity
History Matters
Fluidity/Mobility
This is relevant to the field of Relational Geography
Fitness Peaks
Fitness Landscape
Enslaved States
An enslaved state can persist as an attractor (see Attractor States) within a Fitness Landscape.
Contingency
Beyond its day-to-day usage, this term used in now employed in the social sciences to highlight the Path Dependency exhibited in many social systems. This is seen to contrast with prior conceptions like "the march of history", which imply a clear causal structure. By speaking about the work as something contingent, it also begs the question of what other "worlds" might have just as equally manifested, had things been slightly different.
Similar ideas are captured in the ideas of Non-Linearity, {{sensitivity-to-initial-conditions}}, History Matters.
Pictured below: the contingent trajectory of the double pendulum:
Causal Loop Diagrams
See also: Causal loop diagram - Wikipedia
Capturing Flows
In geography there has been a move away from thinking about space as a "thing" and to instead think about how different places exist due to how they interact with flows. Places that capture more flows, are more geographically relevant
Building Blocks
The nature of a building block varies according to the system: it may take the form of an ant, a cell, a neuron or a building.
