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> Are there reinforcing processes in human beings that are healthy?
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How about Learning? In my case at least, learning generally
reinforces the desire to learn more which leads to learning
more and on and on....
I'm puzzled by the good vs. bad dichotomy pervading this thread.
I recall a passage in Draper Kaufman's _Systems Thinking I_.
(Quoting from memory now - I don't have the book with me.)
"Most real life systems consist of one or two growth loops
surrounded by swarms of balancing loops."
It just doesn't make sense to me to think in terms of good or
bad since most non-trivial systems get their life from the
interplay of the two types of feedback processes.
-- Sal (sviviano@be0227.be.ford.com)