Exercise 1: What is a System

The class definition of a system is "A set of components that are related in some manner. A set of variables selected by an observer (Ashby, 1960)." My definition of a System is a set of components acting upon each other and working as a whole.
Part I

System #1

System #2

System #3  

System #4

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Part II

In class we went over all of the definition of the concepts of cybernetics and systems and talked about the ones we understood and didn't and clarified how they connected to a systems. One that I am most focus on would be Holism and it is "The complete, entire view of that system, emphasizing that the state of a system must be assessed in its entirety and cannot be assessed through its individual components. Dividing a system into its separate parts is considered destructive to that system and single parts within a system should not be prioritized." Instead of focusing on one part of the system, you focus on the system as a whole.

The other concept that I recognized was Feedback and it is "The flow of information back to its origin. A circular causal process in which a system’s output is returned to its input." This is more focused on System #5 that I made about how kids take information from a elder and process it. Ones you tell a kid something no matter if its good or bad, they Listen to what you said. Second they Validate the information by the seriousness of the info and situation. Then they Authorize the problem of the info and see what they did right or wrong. Then they act upon it and change what they did and then they reflect upon it all and if they do something else it would start all over. I got this Idea from a friend and stretched upon it. I don't know if this is right or not