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Types of Complex Behaviours

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Complex Behaviors


Towards a Fourth Generation Pattern Language: Patterns as Epistemic Threads

Understanding how complexity acts together with intentional design in social systems also requires examination of the telos - purpose or directionality - of complex systems and how this can be influenced through design. Considering biological systems, O’Grady and Brooks distinguished three types of complex behaviours:

  1. teleological (end is defined by human or other external agent);
  2. teleonomic (end is 'programmatic', setting defined limits within which possibilities can unfold in many different ways, such as those of the genetic code) and
  3. teleomatic (end is contingent, the consequence of concomitant forces, like in ecosystems).56

Similarly from a social design standpoint, systems thinker and design thinker Peter Jones distinguished purposive systems - well structured or institutionalized social systems that embed deterministic mechanisms dedicated to prescribed outcomes - from those which are purposeful or purpose-seeking. Purposeful systems target pre-determined outcomes and fulfil specified purposes through differentiated means. A purpose-seeking system seeks to converge towards an ideal future state, and upon attainment of any of its intermediate goals then seeks another goal which more closely approximates its ideal.57 {Looks close to STA Methodology postulated "Way"-, or method-focused, and "Goal"-focused methodology of development? - DVS}

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