# Complex system
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- Complex problem assumed ordered
- One of the most common mistake is to think that we're operating in an Ordered system, while we're actually in a Complex system.
- Safe-to-try probes
- Analyse: Analysis implies that we will understand the causality of what we do before we act. Given the nonlinear causality of a Complex system, it's hard to analyse them. Rather than analysing, we probe to understand its Dispositionality.
- Complex domain
- Sometimes being used interchangeably with Complex system.
- How and when should the word scan be used in Cynefin?
- Area: In a Complex system, we should scan as wide as possible to discover a better diversity of information.
- Complex system should be probed to reveal its dispositional state
- Unlike Ordered system, Complex system can't be analysed for solution. An easier way to navigate a Complex system to probe then understand its Dispositionality (Probe-Sense-Respond).
- Unlike Ordered system, Complex system can't be analysed for solution. An easier way to navigate a Complex system to probe then understand its Dispositionality (Probe-Sense-Respond).
- Verbs to act in Complex System
- After studying Cynefin through Cynefin 101 Getting Started and Cynefin Basecamp Nov 2023, it becomes obvious that there are different verbs that practitioners are deliberately using to act in Complex system, with the intention to reflect the complex attribute (like Non-linear Causality).
- Solving puzzles vs shifting patterns
- Shift patterns for Chaotic system or Complex system
- Constraint should be a plausible hypothesis
- When you're thinking about what Constraint are at play in a Complex system, you have to generate thoughts. These constraints don't need to be proven, you can think about them as a hypothesis.
- Complex system can't be predicted
- One of the symptom of Complex problem assumed ordered is to make an attempt to predict a Complex system. Unfortunately, given that a complex system has a Non-linear causality, it's inherently unpredictable.
- One finger movement may change the Earth's orbit
- This is an interesting illustration of a Complex system. (All elements is connected is one of its attribute, see Three systems through complexity science).
- Retrospective coherence should not be used for a complex domain
- Due to the Non-linear causality in a Complex system, it's dangerous to assume that we can use Retrospective coherence.
- Use heuristics as a constraint
- In a Complex system, hard and fast rule is not effective. Defining a comprehensive rules that will work for 100% of the time will be too costly and will overly constrained a system, preventing the system from generating emergent patterns. A Heuristic on the other hand would typically be a single sentence and a more cost effective Constraint to be applied.