CONCLUSIONS
System dynamics seeks to be a general framework for thinking about both social and biological systems. We need to develop it more, and fast, for it to be useful in time. But it is already a useful tool for taking lessons from nature and applying them to the world we now inhabit. It is not so much a formalism for making long-range predictions about what *will* happen, as a way to find what *can* happen, and seek leverage points. Rather than a tool for top-down management, it is a tool we can all use.
.....
Okay, that's the end of this long series! This was just a draft of what I'm writing, and I feel it needs another pass. It doesn't quite come together the way I want, tightly tying together the themes of *learning from nature* and *system dynamics*.
(10/n, n = 10)
John Carlos Baez
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