What is a Black Box?

A Black Box is a system or process where all you see is:

• Input – The things that affects the black box.
• Output – The things that the black box produces or affects.

This implies two things:

• That you sometimes don’t know what happen within a system, even though you know what effects it produces.
• That you sometimes don’t need to know how something works on the inside to interact with it on a meaningful level.

Whether used with intention or not, a black box symbolizes and represents hidden knowledge and the unmeasured parts of systems. Everything that is unmeasured or uncertain but happens anyways can thus be thought of as a Black Box.

Fundamentals of a process

Something that is changing is going through a process

 

The following are various forms of atomic processes:

Storing

Putting an object inside another object or environment where it can not be altered by outside forces. (Usually for later use when needed.)

 

Gather

Putting objects closer to each other or within a specific area

 

Distribute

Putting objects further away from each other or divided from one source and put into many other locations.

 

Arrange

Put objects according to a pattern.

 

Assemble

Connect elements to form a system.

 

Disassemble

Isolate elements from a system, until it is not the same system.