Reciprocal Causality
Each part of the system has an effect on the whole, while the system as a whole affects each part.
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One attribute of a complex system is a special type of reciprocal causality: each part of the system has an effect on the whole, while the system as a whole affects each part. Because of this, a complex system can never be fully understood by reducing it to its component parts. An example of this kind o…
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