Career & Communication · 45 sec
Feedback
A useful lens for working and communicating with other people.
The useful idea
- The useful idea
Feedback 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.
- How it works
The system can then be said to feed back into itself.
- Why it matters
The notion of cause-and-effect has to be handled carefully when applied to feedback systems: Simple causal reasoning about a feedback system is difficult because the first system influences the second and
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Which idea belongs to the explanation of Feedback?
- Why it matters
- How it works
- The useful idea — correct
Feedback 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.