Are there any books on theory of processes ?

This is very hard to explain as it’s pretty vague in my head.

The problems in wanting to come to an end result with flawed ideas about the processes it has to go through.

One example could be, trying to program a robot to catch a ball making it’s reflexes faster, faster cpu, programming it well but when the ball is weighted strangely so it has a completely different trajectory so they would have to program the robot again so it could catch it. Unlike a human that takes different processes so it can learn to catch this new ball.

Maybe examples of when governments want something like lower teen pregnancy but the policy to counter that doesn’t lead to lower teen pregnancy

anything about processes, how we think about them, etc