"A great example of systems thinking. The Manifest (top), Latent (middle), and Deep Latent (bottom) levels of hierarchy in a complex system. In truth there are many levels of hierarchy in any system -- and what gets modeled or represented is a design choice based on problem definition and boundary selection."
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