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The human brain can do a lot of wonderful things; many of them include  1  mastery of complex feedback systems with long  2  For example, consider how difficult raising a child truly is. Many factors are  3  , including the nutritional, physical, emotional and mental condition of the child, and the feedback of these factors  4  the behavior of those involved in raising the child. To  5  matters, many of the responses of the child/parent "system" take years to  6  themselves. Yet billions of parents have somehow  7  to feed, clothe, protect, nurture, heal, teach, and love their children  8  successful adulthood.     9  all our intuitive sophistication in dealing with complicated situations, it’’s a  10  to see how poorly we deal with some newer systems, most of  11  brought about by technology.   Both raising children and protecting Earth’’s life-support systems are  12  of life and death; in the long term, they are equally important. But  13  our brains seem fairly well prepared for the long-term process of raising kids, we seem to have  14  built-in skill for taking care of the environment that supports us, any children we might have, and all other  15  . It seems that the "thinking" parts of our brains can’’t deal with complicated systems and their long- term  16  ,and the  17  parts of our brains that can deal with complex systems don’’t help us much outside of their  18  areas. One of the goals of systems science is to use math and computers to help people get better  19  taking care of Earth’’s life-support systems. The task involves teaching our thinking brains about  20  complicated systems work.

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