Secondary effects occur as a consequence of the primary effects and can lead to emergent behaviors. For example, if you turn the air conditioner down in your hotel room to 60 degrees from the initial state of 70 degrees, the primary effect, the people in the room may start to get chilly (second-order effects) and put jackets in response to being cold (emergent behavior).
Can you think of an instance where you want to change the conditions of an environment to create a different effect and behavior? This can be the mood of employees in an office, an injured joint, a company’s quarterly earnings, the range of motion of a joint, or the amount of money in your savings account.
What action can we take to stimulate positive change from a system’s current state?
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