Consider catalysis: a catalyst transforms reactant to product.
#fig “catalysis consumes reactant, and emits by-product”
Consider a catalyst with a secondary side-effect – which further shape-or-influence circumstances.
#fig #tbc
Consider that shaping-or-influencing also takes input (priors, to shape-or-influence), and also emits (or results in) by-product – whatever has been shaped-or-influenced
#fig #tbc
Consider that each phenomena fitting this description intersects circumstantial change across two separate domains.
#fig “just as an electrical transformer intersects two electrical circuits”
consider a transformer as abstract general-case of mechanism
I think this pattern is universal, actually.
#tbc