What kind of feedback?
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A common example is provided by the target-seeking missile which changes direction in response to change in its target's position to maintain a constant relative heading. In a similar fashion, the daylily directs its blossom toward the light of the sun...
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In such cases, feedback works to maintain the organism in a certain relationship with its operating environment, rather than to sustain a certain internal state. Systems under the control of this variety of feedback thus may exhibit a rudimentary form of 'goal-directed' behavior.
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To contrast with 'homeostatsis', such systems would be aptly labeled 'heterotelic'.
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Heterotelic feedback differs from homeostasis in directing the response of the environmentally stimulated system back to the environment rather than containing it within the system itself.
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Ah, I see. Tha_nks.
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