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London Bombings. Archetypes - Interaction Structures of the Universe. Interaction Structures of the Universe This article is essentially a continuation of Systems Thinking: An Operational Perspective of the Universe in which the Reinforcing and Balancing structures were developed. This article develops a set of frequently recurring structures resulting from various combinations of Reinforcing and Balancing structures. This article essentially represents an elaboration of the work of Senge (1990) and Pegasus Communications (1989-1996). Note that all the archetype examples that were previously wired into this article are now accessible via theWay which is considered to provide a more comprehensive treatment of the archetypes, as well as a few additional ones, and uses the "+" and "-" influence notation.

Accidental Adversaries The Accidental Adversaries structure is a composed of three reinforcing loops and two balancing loops. Balancing Loop (^) The Balancing Loop attempts to move some current state to a desired or reference state though some action. Www.thinking.net/Systems_Thinking/OverviewSTarticle.pdf. Www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~dec/teaching/CSC9T4/lectures/HardSys.pdf. The "thinking" in systems thinking. Google Image Result for.