# Feedback Loops
**Domain:** Cybernetics / Control
**Doc Type:** Concept Node
**Maturity:** Evolving
**Related:** [[Cybernetics]], [[Control Systems]], [[Recursive Self-Correction]], [[Human-Machine Symbiosis]]
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## Definition
A **feedback loop** returns information about a system's effects into the process that produces them, allowing regulation, learning or amplification.
## Corpus Context
Negative feedback can stabilize a variable; positive feedback can accelerate deviation. In governance, the constitutional issue is whether those being regulated can observe and answer the loop that classifies them.
## See Also
[[Cybernetics]], [[Control Systems]], [[Recursive Self-Correction]], [[Human-Machine Symbiosis]]
## Sources / Provenance
- Developed through [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]] and the linked corpus.