12 Elements of a System – (2)   Subsystems - Can decompose a system into parts - Each part is also a system - For each subsystem, the remainder of the system is its environment - Subsystems are inter-dependent   Control Mechanism - How the behavior of the system is regulated to allow it to endure - Often a natural mechanism   Emergent Properties - Properties that hold of a system, but not of any of the parts - Properties that cannot be predicted from studying the parts
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