Monday, February 13, 2012

System Dynamics (SD) Models

Insight Maker is an SD model system.

Users of insight can created reusable models.  This is one of the models created by a user of insight.  These models are intended to be reusable modules.  It is a simple model but shows the power of expressing a basic idea of relationships that can be progressed to greater levels of complexity.  Exactly the same way professor Yamaguchi presented his ideas.

The model referenced in the previous paragraph is simple.  There is power in the simplicity, especially when it can be expanded to any level of detail needed to explain it to any level anyone cares to go.

Ross Perot used simple charts (are models) to explain fundamental situations like the "Great Sucking Sound" and debt "hockey sticks".  He also used simple relational diagrams.  He was also unsuccessful in his bid for the presidency.  He used an unconventional way of presenting facts to the public.  If Bill Still used the same method today to present a simple relationships of debt with links to his web site that expands the model to detailed levels he might meet with more success than Ross Perot.

Bill Still might meet with more success than Ross Perot because if he presented an expanded model, like professor Yamaguchi's then he would be framing the issue and debate upon his model.  Let anybody attempt to demonstrate its falseness.

It appears from professor Yamaguchi's course description that he uses Vensim software for the presentation of his SD models.  I would guess that he might have used the same software to document his Public Money system.

The problem is that simply talking about complex systems is not the most effective way of solving them.  What is needed is a model of the basic system that we are talking about as the platform for discussion.  Professor Yamaguchi made and excellent presentation of how the current monetary system works.  I don't think that anyone could dispute it except in the details but he did not expand his model of the system to the details.  He then submits his new monetary public money system model.

That is what discussion of the complexity of the system today needs.  A base model, not just a word description, which is often opinion and not fact.  The validity of opinion has a greater probability of falling when the things under discussion are given accurate relationships in a model of how the pieces fit together and their related information and functions.

There would be much less erroneous opinion and more factual understanding if the complex things like money and monetary systems were expressed in accurate models, not the model of what everyone thinks it is and does.  That is the model in the minds of the many that the banksters take advantage of to defraud with the debt money system.

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