A Recreated Mental Model for Systems Thinking

Introduction

The idea for this article, my musing, erupted from two very different sources of inspiration; the first being from the intellectual autobiography by Colin McGinn, ‘The Making of a Philosopher’; while the second is from the fact that I am about to begin studying System Dynamics in my final year at university.

In his autobiography McGinn talks about an idea that has seriously captivated me. He calls it CALM: Combinatorial Atomism with Lawlike Mappings. As its name eludes, the method essentially deals with…