This model works in units of genes per year. It is assumed that Transcription, Repair and the Food Queue are all in Gene units in spite of their having different functions. The Repair process repairs Genes per year. The Transcription process transcribes Genes per year and the Exogenous Food source adds Food in Genes needed to process it per year. Transcription proportion is in Genes (10 of them split between transcription and repair). Other variables like Damage and CpG are dimensionless. 

This is a stock-flow consistent model, namely a modified version of the simplest (PC) model with money and boonds.

Godley/Lavoie (2006), chapter 4

(I had to change the equation for consumption demand. The disposable income now enters with a time lag of one period. Otherwise the model would be recursive and would not work in Insight Maker. Thanks to Gene for support.)

A basic production model showing negative and positive loops, often called a balancing model.
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Coping but not coping in health and social care: masking the reality of running organisations beyond safe design capacity. From Eric Wolstenholme Syst. Dyn. Rev. 23, 371–389, (2007) abstract. See also IM-1010 for unfolding CLD version. This is a cascade of swamping structures see gene's insight with video link

Causal loop summary of my gemini interaction based on comparing the Barrett and Miiller 2026 article Categorization is ‘baked’ into the brain, with Perceptual Control Theory, using Gene Bellinger's AI prompts

Radioaktiver Zerfall nach Beispiel des exponentiellen Zerfall-Modells von Gene Bellinger

Small Intestine example from Progress in Biophysics & Molecular Biology Special Issue 2016 From the century of the genome to the century of the organism: New theoretical approaches paper on organization. Compare with Bogdanov (click tag)

Unfolding WIP of Eric Wolstenholme's explanation of hospital congestion from March 2022 Youtube video and online stella presentation. Use of cascading interlinked archetypes. See Kumu version,  early discharge boundaries IM for an earlier version and Generic Archetypes IM from Gene and Simpler Version IM

GSD simulation

Level of biological organization linking cell level division and population level evolution

Go to Gene Bellinger's insight version with video link This common archetype of systems that include relapse or recidivism allows exploration of the unintended effects of increasing upstream capacity and swamping downstream capacity. The increase in the relapse rate eventually returns to swamp upstream capacity as well. A social welfare example, based on a TANF case study, from How Small System Dynamics Models Can Help the Policy Process. N. Ghaffarzadegan, J. Lyneis, GP Richardson. System Dynamics Review 27,1 (2011) 22-44 abstract Conference version here

Gene Bellinger's CST course requires several causation models to be developed. This is my first sheet of such models.

Summary of the Bumpus 2025 paper and 2024 video Wilmer Leal - Towards a Unified Theory of Time-Varying Data using Gene Bellinger's gemini prompts in a Jan2026 interaction. Paper featured in Nate Osgood's 2025 usask course on Sheaves and Applied Category THeory

WIP based mostly on Jan Toporowski 2013 vol 1 and 2018 vol 2 books on Michal Kalecki: An Intellectual Biography  

A shifting the burden structure occurs when there are different ways to address a situation. With one approach being easier, faster, and requiring fewer resources, which do you think gets pursued? The problem is that taking the easier path ensures one will have to take the easier path repeatedly, and makes it harder to pursue the long-term better solution. See also Archetypes.

What influences sleep quality?

Based on the theory of eusociality and multilevel selection.