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: "Almost every complex adaptive system that we know of has lever points. These are great things if you can find them. A lever point allows you to make big, directed changes for a relatively small effort. A vaccine is a good example of a lever point. An immune system is terribly complex. But we do know that for some diseases, we can make a small injection and train the immune system to resist a disease for the rest of its existence — much longer than the life span of any blood cell in your body." | : "Almost every complex adaptive system that we know of has lever points. These are great things if you can find them. A lever point allows you to make big, directed changes for a relatively small effort. A vaccine is a good example of a lever point. An immune system is terribly complex. But we do know that for some diseases, we can make a small injection and train the immune system to resist a disease for the rest of its existence — much longer than the life span of any blood cell in your body." | ||
see also [[Butterfly_Effect|butterfly effect]], [[Path_Dependence|path dependence]] | see also [[Butterfly_Effect|butterfly effect]], [[Path_Dependence|path dependence]], [[Frozen_Accident|frozen accident]] | ||
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Revision as of 06:43, 4 October 2008
Lever points in a complex adaptive system are points at which a small effort can produce a desired, directed effect.
John H. Holland writes about them (see here)
- "Almost every complex adaptive system that we know of has lever points. These are great things if you can find them. A lever point allows you to make big, directed changes for a relatively small effort. A vaccine is a good example of a lever point. An immune system is terribly complex. But we do know that for some diseases, we can make a small injection and train the immune system to resist a disease for the rest of its existence — much longer than the life span of any blood cell in your body."
see also butterfly effect, path dependence, frozen accident
