Begin with a familiar relationship. A school’s new mentoring program may affect family time, workplace training, community trust and local ecology. Those are concrete institutions and physical systems. It may also change confidence, reputation, social order and future possibilities—real consequences often described through practical abstract relationships. Choose a system below, then ask who participates, which PA dimensions and modifiers matter, and what changes after feedback.
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Concrete Existing Systems
Government and politics
Relatable question: How does public trust alter an agency’s capacity to serve?
Education and research
Relatable question: Who gets access to mentoring and whose knowledge is excluded?
Healthcare and biology
Relatable question: How do communication and conditions change safe participation?
Enterprise and finance
Relatable question: Can incentive redesign create sustainable work without excluding others?
Ecology and agriculture
Relatable question: How do community decisions change habitat and biological resilience?
Technology and engineering
Relatable question: Which tools make resources accessible, and who maintains them?
Families and communities
Relatable question: How do respect, confidence and workload affect family participation?
Cultures and religions
Relatable question: How do different traditions express trust and belonging?
Law and administration
Relatable question: Do rules create transparent opportunities or institutional bottlenecks?
Space and planetary systems
Relatable question: How do long timescales and finite resources alter planning?
Practical Abstract Systems
Consciousness and cognition
Relatable question: What can we observe about learning and awareness without claiming more?
Collective intelligence
Relatable question: How do distinct participants combine knowledge and correct one another?
Trust and reputation
Relatable question: How do repeated experiences build or damage reputation?
Cultural evolution
Relatable question: What practices continue, diversify or become inaccessible over time?
Institutional legitimacy
Relatable question: What observable actions sustain or undermine warranted authority?
Information environments
Relatable question: How do message sources, access and repetition alter interpretation?
Innovation and discovery
Relatable question: Which cross-domain discovery becomes useful with a new partner?
Potential opportunities
Relatable question: What value is hidden by current skills, access or assumptions?
Complex adaptive networks
Relatable question: Which feedback between groups changes the wider network?
Biological emergence
Relatable question: How do local biological changes influence other organisms and systems?
Long-horizon sustainability
Relatable question: Which current benefit changes future life and cultural diversity?