Have you ever noticed how some things just seem to oscillate back and forth endlessly? Trying to decide between two options, the way people have their ups and downs, the way supply and demand never seems to settle out are examples of just this.
This situation is characteristic of two Balancing Loops with Delays which provide the desired state for each other. Because of the delays in the structure by the time one value reaches the point it’s headed for, its destination has moved, so it begins changing again. This is very much like shooting at a moving target, while you’re moving. Continue…
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Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the World, we had need be very circumspect lest we do more harm than Good. In New England they once thought Black‑birds useless and mischievous to their corn, they made Laws to destroy them, the consequence was, the Black‑birds were diminished but a kind of Worms which devoured their Grass, and which the Black‑birds had been used to feed on encreased prodigiously; Then finding their Loss in Grass much greater than their saving in corn they wished again for their Black‑birds. – Benjamin Franklin
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