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To understand your world you first need to understand systems. You are a system and you live within other systems. Understanding our systems is akin to a fish comprehending the water in which it lives. It surrounds us; it is constant; it is the background in the face of daily events.   However, your systems are often changing and evolving, giving it dynamics.   That is only the beginning. Human systems evolve through all of at least nine essential features. a.       Rules – logics, quasi logic, intuitions, induction, limits, laws b.       Premises – beliefs, axioms, superstitions, absolutes c.       Leaders – interpreters, guides, directors, dictators d.       Dynamics – changes, cycles, chaos, repair e.       Taboos – impossibles, improbables f.        Hierarchies – ranks, orders, arrangements g.       Infinities – extremes, beyond extremes, imponderables h.       Conformities – rigidity, flexibility, freedoms i.        Human – behavioral, social, moral, ethi

A question has been put forth as to whether there is some system(s) in this universe more complex than the human mind.  The particular construct one author proposed is "Knowledge Management," whatever that is.  With the recent popularity of data mining, we can surely conceive of objects involving data far more complex that is the human brain.  But it is the human brain that provides the guidance for data mining, and for determining findings.  So, data mining is out of contention as more complex than the brain.The trick will be getting outside of the brain, and herein lies the problem. Let's go general... To consider the complexity of the universe vs. the complexity of the human brain leads us to a paradox of sorts.  First, we have the universe and all its machinations.  Then we have the human brain, and all it can conceive.  However, for us and to us, the complexity of the universe,is in complete concordance with the complexity of the human brain.  We cannot conceive