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2014 Report: Dysfunctional Regulation
Shiseida Sade Kelly Aponte
Arizona State University
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Abstract
Each structured society appears to involve an interconnected structure of systems.
Each system embodies intricate biological, cultural, economical, industrial,
governance, physical, and social dynamics that attend to the varying interests and
needs of its users. Each facet of each system seems purported to operate upon the
basis of instructions, objectives, and/or values that create user trust and
cooperation. Behavioral parameters provide predictable provision of resources and
reliable stability of its associated system, thus maintaining a trajectory toward
optimal developmental stature amid change. As these facets evolve, however, the
failure for system facets to operate coherently, in correspondence to the harmony
required of its internal connectivity and reliance on other systems, results in a
chaotic state of immense complexity. Although chaos provides opportunity for
innovation and self-regulating reorganization of facets, on both the micro and
macro systemic scale, the inability to control evolving complexity and the
structure of its chaotic state seems to have a higher likelihood of resulting in
dysregulation. States of dysregulation seem to be remediated through users that
operate in tandem with the original objective of a system.
Human civilization consists of varying systems that accommodate the varying
interests and needs of the embedded societies and its users. These systems involve
interconnected structures of the intricate domains of civilization. Such intricate
structures consist of domains that operate on the basis of its fundamental
dynamics. That is, for example, the educational system is an interconnected
structure of academia that involves intricate domains of achievement, culture,
knowledge and principle; with each domain functioning on the basis of mechanical
properties that foster its development. The complexities of these differing facets
use behavioral parameters that govern interpersonal and structural interaction. Of
these behavioral parameters, the formulaic pattern of instruction, objectives,
rules and values effect the behavioral content of the consciousness of its users
and the regulatory structure of the system. The consistency and reliability of
these behavioral parameters, thus, establish collaboration and cooperation of its
users through the development of trust. Trust, in turn, creates behavioral patterns
that enable a system and its inherent intricacies to be balanced, coordinated, and
stable.
By virtue of the complex facets that comprise and effect the whole state of systems
of civilization, it can be logically surmised that they evolve in accordance with
changes of principle and circumstance. And, by virtue of the functional property of
the formulaic patterns of instructions, objectives, rules and values, any such
adaptation to change should be guided in accordance with the original purpose and
process of the system, or the purpose and process of any of the subsystems'
stratum. This "indivisible continuum" enables the procedural output of adaptations
and changes to be sufficiently functional that balance and stability are enhanced,
if not only maintained. That is, it is desirable for the mechanical function of
systems to remain fairly consistent despite adaptation and change in order to
reliably accommodate the interests and needs of its users; which, in turn,
cultivate the trust and cooperation necessary for continual operation of the system
within the original bounds of its procedural and structural purpose. As such,
descent toward dysregulation appears to arise through the imposition of chaos, an
unpredictable pattern affecting the structures of a system that ensues on the cusp
of a departure from the original ideological formulation of a system. Apart from
psychopathology, examples of dysregulation appear to be evident in corrupt
deception, descent into fashionable stupidities, denigrated user trust, diminished
power, dysfunctional logic, irrationality, systemic corruption, and, ultimate,
collapse. Survival amid dysregulatory function seems possible only in circumstances
wherein the users are able to maintain self-regulation of behavioral patterns that
operate upon the premise of the original purpose of the system or the broader
matrix of interconnected systems.
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