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A System's Real Purpose is What It Repeatedly Does, Not What It Says It Does

Rests on bnd-system-elements-interconnections-purpose. Feeds bnd-mental-models-generate-structure and bnd-policy-resistance, and gives arc- the reading of goals that the eroding-goals and shifting-the-burden stories need before an archetype can be matched. Explicitly not the leverage claim about changing a goal, which lev- owns, and not Goodhart, also lev-; this node only reads the operating purpose off the behaviour record.

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The POSIWID Principle in Systems Thinking

POSIWID ("The Purpose Of a System Is What It Does"), a principle introduced by cyberneticist Stafford Beer, holds that a system's true purpose is revealed by its actual outcomes and behavior rather t…