Concept

Feedback

Overview

process in which information about the past or the present influences the same phenomenon in the present or future; it occurs when outputs of a system are routed back as inputs as part of a chain of cause-and-effect that forms a circuit or loop

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Philosophers who discussed Feedback

• Andy Clark

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Place in the tradition

Part of Dualism in cosmology.

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