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slug: oip-c07-feedback-cybernetics
title: C07: Feedback, Cybernetics, and Homeostasis
canonical: https://miscsubjects.com/a/oip-c07-feedback-cybernetics
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### 3.7 Feedback / cybernetics / homeostasis
A system senses its output and corrects. **Sources:** Wiener (cybernetics); Ashby (requisite variety, ultrastability); Bernard, Cannon (homeostasis); control theory; Powers (perceptual control). **Domains:** physiology, engineering, ecology, economics, governance. **Dual:** open-loop / runaway. **Tier:** T1. **Falsifier:** a stable adaptive system with no feedback channel. **Maps:** A₁₂ (recursion), A₃.

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## Corpus map
- Same node, other planes: [Catalogue node C07](/a/oip-node-c07-feedback-cybernetics-homeostasis) · [Encyclopedia C07](/a/convergence-encyclopedia-c07)
- Catalogue hub: [Public Article](/a/oip-convergence-public-article)
