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The pattern behind the connection.

Here you can explore the foundations and sources of ADL, the structure behind context in Epoch and the ADL programs: concepts, derivations, mathematical representations and original works.

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ADL / 01–06

Make a structure visible.

Illustration · not a simulation

An element is a unit identifiable within an explicitly chosen frame. It may be an object, a person, a statement, an event or an entire order. “Element” therefore claims neither indivisibility nor ultimate substance. What matters is that we can refer to the same unit, name its properties and track its identity through the changes under consideration.

Twelve levels. One context.

Element

An element is a unit identifiable within an explicitly chosen frame.

Relation

A relation describes an explicitly named connection between elements.

Effect

An effect is a distinguishable change attributed in the model to a relation.

Time

Time makes states, events and changes comparable.

Feedback

Feedback occurs when an outcome returns through a path and changes the conditions of its further production.

Order

Here, order is a bounded arrangement of elements and relations whose cohesion or regularity can be described by a named criterion: a function, recurring interaction, institutional rule or observable connection.

Centre

A centre is a reference point or function around which certain relations gather.

Boundary

A boundary specifies which elements and processes belong to the order and which are treated as environment.

Balance

Balance is the maintenance of named conditions within a specified period and environment: a resource range, load threshold, functional viability or target corridor.