System-environment differentiation creates temporal complexity that demands anticipatory reactions.

Evidence

As soon as systems differentiate from their environment by formulating boundaries, problems about time occur. In the first place through the dislocation of processes which maintain the differentiation by making them sequential, for not all relationships between system and environment can be instantaneous one-to-one correlations. Rather the maintenance of the difference, in more complex systems at least, necessitates detours, and these take time. This occurs partly because of the absence of any reaction to environmental events, partly because of late reactions, and partly because of anticipatory reactions. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 111

Categorization

• XREF: This is the causal mechanism behind Luhmann’s complexity-reduction thesis — differentiation produces time problems that trust, as anticipation, solves. Connects to Stevens’s anticipatory service deferring to the estate hierarchy. — connects to: The situation resembles an evolutionary environment structuring adaptation — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 444; Functional differentiation drives desynchronization between societal systems’ time structures. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 200