The essence of systems thinking: Every persistent biological or cultural structure exists because of a positive feedback loop. Sometimes it’s hard to see. But to understand the structure, you must understand the loop.
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negative feedback loop?
those don’t seem as important to me (but maybe i’m not enlightened enough)
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i mean positive feedback loops are like the opposite of persistent structures. usually stable things are characterized by *control* processes, negative feedback
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I had the same response to original tweet. Positive feedback = errors are amplified, driving a system to saturation at limits (eg animal reproduction, no predation). Negative feedback = system finds equilibrium (eg add in predators).
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