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Feedback

(see other keywords including negative feedback and positive-feedback-glossary
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Systems thinking

  • The idea of feedback is very important within cybernetics and control theory
  • It is part of a larger process of systems thinking that enables us to map out the workings of more complex systems.
  • In order to grasp feedback we must imagine that a system is aware of/part of particular processes or values.
  • In early systems thinking we visualised systems as black boxes containing largely unknown parts.
  • We reduced the black box's awareness to pathways of flow showing what went IN and what came OUT.
  • Of course, awareness (see consciousness) cannot really be piped like fluids, or electrical currents.

Types of feedback

  1. Negative feedback
  2. Positive feedback