A system’s output depends on its remembered history

Evidence

State: a concept that describes how a system ‘memorizes’ the history of its behaviour. Its reaction (output) to external causes (inputs) depends also on its internal state (unless it is a memoryless system). — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 112

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains system state as memory of prior behavior influencing current output.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 112
• XREF: connects to: Interpretation of experiments depends on the history of their implementation — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1956; Disturbance predictions must be mechanistic, incorporating history and context — S. T. A. Pickett and P. S. White, eds., The Ecology of Natural Disturbance and…, 2242