2 The Roaring Loop

Now imagine the opposite case: a feedback system in which the loop does not whisper but roar. Every signal that cycles back is amplified, magnified, bellowed into the system with overwhelming force. Nothing subtle can survive; every nuance is drowned in its own echo.

From within, the system no longer questions whether feedback exists — it cannot escape it. The loop imposes itself on every movement, demanding attention, saturating the space of possible construals. Yet here too a danger arises: instead of stabilisation, the roaring loop may drive runaway escalation, producing turbulence where equilibrium might have been.

The experiment confronts us with the limits of resonance. If the whispering loop risks vanishing, the roaring loop risks consuming. Between absence and excess lies the precarious domain where feedback can both be discerned and endured — a zone in which self-stabilising emergence becomes possible.