Content Weapons Primer: Feedback Loops

For sure, you are familiar with the cause and effect concept. This is one way of defining what the feedback loop is. For example, people commonly think that variable X will cause an outcome Y to happen. Then, that would be the end of the process.

CAUSE AND EFFECT CONCEPT

However, in the feedback loops process, variable X may cause outcome Y, but outcome Y turned around and exerted either direct or indirect variable on variable X is the original cause. In return, it will cause variable X to create something else concerning outcome Y. in this situation, no cause and effect straight line occurred, instead of a closed loop where causality happened around the loop.

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SELF-REGULATING SYSTEM

Self-regulating system is another way of approaching the concept of feedback loops. It will try to keep a particular condition fixed although there some disturbances from the outside.

For example, your heating and cooling system together with a thermostat will act in keeping the temperature of your home confined, which corresponds to the setting of the thermostat. What makes it possible?

Remember, a thermostat is a device that can sense the current air temperature and then, it will compare it to the setpoint. Meaning, if the air temperature starts to get higher compared to the set point, the thermostat will send a message to activate the air conditioning part of the unit.

Other than that, the thermostat will continue checking the current air temperature. If the temperature goes back to the set point, it will allow the air conditioner unit to turn off. But, if the air temperature will fall too low, the thermostat will send a message to the heater.

Feedback loops can be present in one or another form in the real world system. To help you get more familiar with the feedback loop, you also need to discover the two basic types of feedback loops, the positive and the negative.

Positive Feedback Loops

This kind of feedback loop is self-reinforcing, and that’s because it can generate growth and amplify the changes. For example, the more cats you have, the more kittens will be produced. And the more kittens being produced, the more cats you have, and the cycle goes on until the world will be filled with cats.

Negative Feedback Loops

Negative feedback loops are considered to be self-correcting. This is because they will drive systems toward the concept of equilibrium and balance. For example, the more cats you have, the less food you have for them and the less food you have for them, the fewer cats you have.

With the above examples, for sure you get valuable ideas about feedback loops and how you can see them in the daily life activities without noticing it.

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