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may be reduced by changing the mechanism of conversion. For example,
changing from incandescent light bulbs to florescent lighting improves the
conversion efficiency of electrical energy to lumens outputted. The result is a
13-W florescent bulb that has the equivalent steady-state output of a 60-W
incandescent light bulb. There are slight differences in the “color” wavelength of the emitted photons and the lifetimes of the photon generation
mechanisms are also different.
Take for example, cooking a package of dried noodles. Undercooking the
noodles by 90% of the suggested cooking time of 4 min results in 24 s of heating water with only a negligible amount of heat transfer to soften (i.e., “cook”)
the noodles. These barely warm, wetted noodles are unlikely to be eaten.
The result is that such undercooked noodles will be thrown away with a
loss of the purchase price, water for cooking, 24 s of energy consumption,
the energy expended by the person(s) cooking to prepare the noodles for
cooking, placing water in a pan, cooking, removing, and tasting the “cooked”
noodles. These tasks can be translated into costs and attributed to undercooking noodles. In contrast, cook the same noodles for 24 min (700%) longer
than the suggested cooking time. The noodles are hydrolyzed, substantially
devoid of flavor, without physical substance (as desired from noodles cooked
according to suggested cooking instructions). The losses are considered in
the same manner as with the undercooking. In both cooking sequences, the
“cooked” products were discarded (full loss of purchase prices). The result is
more spent (i.e., more loss) from cooking the overcooked noodles than with
that of the undercooked noodles. The loses due to variation about a performance (due to regulation of enactment(s) of mechanism(s)) results in an inefficiency in achieving a desired output for losses due to the mechanism
transforms are the total losses of the functional mechanism.
References
Aerts, D., Broekaert, J., and Gabora, L. (Eds) 2003. A case for applying an abstracted
quantum formalism to cognition. Mind in Interaction. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Ariew, A., Cummins, R., and Perlman, M. (Eds) 2002. Functions: New Essays in the
Philosophy of Psychology and Biology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Astley, W. G. and Brahm, R. 1989. Organizational Designs for Post-Industrial Strategies:
The Role of Interorganizational Collaboration. Greenwich: JAI Press.
Bahill, T. A. and Briggs, C. 2001. The systems engineering started in the middle
process: A consensus of systems engineers and project managers. Systems
Engineering 4(2): 156–166.
Bainswanger, H. 1990. The Biological Basis of Teleological Concepts. Irvine, California:
Ayn Rand Institute Press.
Bausch, K. C. 1997. The Habermas/Luhmann debate and subsequent habermasian
perspectives on systems theory. Systems Research Behavior Science 14: 315–330.
Essences of Interaction
may be reduced by changing the mechanism of conversion. For example,
changing from incandescent light bulbs to florescent lighting improves the
conversion efficiency of electrical energy to lumens outputted. The result is a
13-W florescent bulb that has the equivalent steady-state output of a 60-W
incandescent light bulb. There are slight differences in the “color” wavelength of the emitted photons and the lifetimes of the photon generation
mechanisms are also different.
Take for example, cooking a package of dried noodles. Undercooking the
noodles by 90% of the suggested cooking time of 4 min results in 24 s of heating water with only a negligible amount of heat transfer to soften (i.e., “cook”)
the noodles. These barely warm, wetted noodles are unlikely to be eaten.
The result is that such undercooked noodles will be thrown away with a
loss of the purchase price, water for cooking, 24 s of energy consumption,
the energy expended by the person(s) cooking to prepare the noodles for
cooking, placing water in a pan, cooking, removing, and tasting the “cooked”
noodles. These tasks can be translated into costs and attributed to undercooking noodles. In contrast, cook the same noodles for 24 min (700%) longer
than the suggested cooking time. The noodles are hydrolyzed, substantially
devoid of flavor, without physical substance (as desired from noodles cooked
according to suggested cooking instructions). The losses are considered in
the same manner as with the undercooking. In both cooking sequences, the
“cooked” products were discarded (full loss of purchase prices). The result is
more spent (i.e., more loss) from cooking the overcooked noodles than with
that of the undercooked noodles. The loses due to variation about a performance (due to regulation of enactment(s) of mechanism(s)) results in an inefficiency in achieving a desired output for losses due to the mechanism
transforms are the total losses of the functional mechanism.
References
Aerts, D., Broekaert, J., and Gabora, L. (Eds) 2003. A case for applying an abstracted
quantum formalism to cognition. Mind in Interaction. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Ariew, A., Cummins, R., and Perlman, M. (Eds) 2002. Functions: New Essays in the
Philosophy of Psychology and Biology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Astley, W. G. and Brahm, R. 1989. Organizational Designs for Post-Industrial Strategies:
The Role of Interorganizational Collaboration. Greenwich: JAI Press.
Bahill, T. A. and Briggs, C. 2001. The systems engineering started in the middle
process: A consensus of systems engineers and project managers. Systems
Engineering 4(2): 156–166.
Bainswanger, H. 1990. The Biological Basis of Teleological Concepts. Irvine, California:
Ayn Rand Institute Press.
Bausch, K. C. 1997. The Habermas/Luhmann debate and subsequent habermasian
perspectives on systems theory. Systems Research Behavior Science 14: 315–330.