4 Reflections on Feedback Loops

Across these three thought experiments — the whispering loop, the roaring loop, and the tuning loop — we see that feedback is not merely information, but a medium of emergence. Its intensity, timing, and modulation shape the very possibilities of the system: too faint, and patterns vanish; too loud, and they collapse; tuned just right, and emergence flourishes.

What binds these scenarios together is the relational nature of actualisation. Feedback is never external; it is part of the system’s ongoing construal of itself. Emergence is inseparable from the loops that both reveal and transform it. By observing, modulating, and participating in these loops, a system co-creates its own horizons of possibility.

In short, the dynamics of feedback illuminate a central principle of relational ontology: coherence, transformation, and potential are always relational, always enacted, and always contingent on the system’s capacity to read and respond to itself.