Imagine a system in which feedback exists, but only just. Each signal that travels back into the system is quieter than the last, attenuated to the edge of perceptibility. Like an echo fading into mist, the loop whispers rather than speaks.
From within, the system can scarcely tell whether the feedback is present at all. Is the faint resonance meaningful, or mere noise? Does the system stabilise itself on this tenuous hint, or drift unmoored because the signal is too soft to guide?
The experiment forces us to consider the threshold of construal: emergence is not just a matter of patterns forming, but of patterns being recognised as such. A loop that whispers too softly risks vanishing into the background, leaving the system blind to its own dynamics. Yet the very delicacy of such a loop might enable subtle stabilisations invisible to coarser mechanisms — fragile harmonies that only a whisper can sustain.
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