One thing that's become very interesting to me is whether there's a way to formalize the presence of these kinds of path dependencies in models (sociological, p

One thing that's become very interesting to me is whether there's a way to formalize the presence of these kinds of path dependencies in models (sociological, psychological, epidemiological, system, whatever) so they don't become these kind of implicit ghost (butterfly?) effects that are mismodeled and misinterpreted. How do we avoid overlooking them? Seems like it's something that happens a lot.