System Thinking

Summary of 1-11-14 Lecture

TRL 4-6 (Valley of Death)
System level thinking
Highly multi-disciplinary (mutual respect development, broaden the mind
set)
TRL 4-6

Synthesis

Analysis

Interfaces are more

03-11-14 Lecture

Abstraction
Core
attributes

no fixation
minimal form and
structure details

examples: Auditorium Design,

lassi maker_washing machine

capturing general
principles from
specific event/
phenomenon

should preserve
all basic
relationships

General Principles
Embedded in every specific thing
Independent of a specific system/thing
Core attributes
Understanding of extensive and intensive (Reynolds no.) properties
Scaling

Scaling

Scaling up a
particular
element

Scaling up
by
integrating

Difference between two ways of scaling up is complexity

Complexity
Scaling up by integration- different variables- come together in non-linear
ways
Options to put subsets together to obtain O/P are many
eg stock market
Need of hour is leadership, adaptive feedback control
Importance and Evolution of Language
Language allows to abstract

Expressio
n of
thoughts
Analysis
and
synthesis

Langua
ge

Smybolic
Reasoning

Symbols

 Languages are different in different regions because people have

tendency of living in tribes, but thoughts are similar
Built in schemata- system language evolves (its logic) how languages are
interconnected in sequence and governed in specific situations eg cave men
on hunting
when attributes are removed-abstract- any relationship can be solved
because mind is able to convert thoughts into symbols and hence
thinking is attribute less
Ability of Pattern Recognition of our brain
Evolution of language
Started with sounds
Sounds(bring hundreds of actions together in single noun /verb)complex- (broken down to syllables)- 0,1
Drawing Pictures complex -(broken down to alphabets) -0,1
Relationship(associative, commutative, transitive) b/w symbols and
alphabets script of a language
As field grows the word in it grows
Equivalence and Equilibrium
First step of quantification of abstract entities (define 1 and negation
of 1i.e. 0) (eg.length =1 foot of king, 2 sheep= 1 sack rice)
Equivalence reasons a relationship
Leadership(centre pillar of a tent which holds a tent High!)
Capacity to handle what and how in a complex system
Pillars of tent are Individuals (trained in a particular field)-knowledge in
implicit form, physical resources, knowledge domain, financial input.
Nature

Species have set of Attributes-interdependence among themselves

Surrounded by habitat
Adaptive Survival (taken feedback and adapted well)
Fitness function (e.g.selecting committee in an exam)
More species more solutions-exploration of these solutions and most fit will
multiply and rest all discarded

Hence, TRL 4-6

death for many
fittest
ideas

Valley
of
ideas
only
surface up
Multiplicati
on

Fitness function- filter

bottleneck (TRL4-6)

Design
material
control
TRL3

habitat