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  1. Apr 2025
    1. framework integrating three therapeutic modes, namely Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Outdoor Therapy and Group Therapy. We describe the ACT-GRO(ACT-GroupOutdoor) Framework, its components, rationale behind the proposed Framework and explain how each component enhances the other and can be viewed as a system of systems-a term borrowed from engineering –requiring each system to be autonomous, connected, and diverse, with a common purpose and a commitment to a greater outcome. In the second part, we describe how the three therapeutic modes working in an integrative way meet Baldwin’s criteria of a system of systems. Finally, we

      This is an interesting example of applying systems of systems concepts to a form of integrated therapy. By maintaining the same rigorous requirements for characterization as a system of systems, a framework emerges which can be applied to other integrated systems.

  2. Feb 2021
    1. AI agents can acquire novel behaviors as they interact with the world around them and with other agents. The behaviors learned from such interactions are virtually impossible to predict, and even when solutions can be described mathematically, they can be “so lengthy and complex as to be indecipherable,” according to the paper.

      The sheer number of interacting variables that you'd need to track makes it impossible to make any accurate predictions.

  3. Feb 2019
    1. It is the augmentation means that serve to break down a large problem in such a way that the human being can walk through it with his little steps, and it is the structure or organization of these little steps or actions that we discuss as process hierarchies.

      As I begin to read this (as I did back in 2000 when I was introduced to Doug) I begin to think in terms of reductionism as a practice in the face of problems which are highly complex, nonlinear, and which do not submit to chunking.

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