Icons of Complexity

In many areas of communication, it is easy to use a pictogram to express a concept. This is more difficult when communicating complexity, an area in which only concepts such as feedback, homeostasis, redundancy, can be efficiently and concisely expressed only verbally. This job documents the early stage of an attempt to use individual pictograms to express some complex concepts - just as we use individual words to express those concepts.

Linear interaction (sequential)
 
Linear interaction (sequential)
Linear interaction (hub)
Feedback simple
Negative Feedback
Positive Feedback
Homeostasis
Escalation
Domino effect
Butterfly effect
Snowball effect
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Chaos
Self organization
Order
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