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feedback

Process in which information about the past or the present influences the same phenomenon in the present or future; it occurs when outputs of a system are routed back as inputs as part of a chain of cause-and-effect that forms a circuit or loop

EntityQ183635

Also known as feedback loop · feedback process

Subclass of: interaction
Part of: cyclic process

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Feedback occurs when outputs of a system are routed back as inputs as part of a chain of cause and effect that forms a circuit or loop. The system can then be said to feed back into itself. The notion of cause-and-effect has to be handled carefully when applied to feedback systems:Simple causal reasoning about a feedback system is difficult because the first system influences the second and second system influences the first, leading to a circular argument. This makes reasoning based upon cause and effect tricky, and it is necessary to analyze the system as a whole. As provided by Webster, feedback in business is the transmission of evaluative or corrective information about an action, event, or process to the original or controlling source.

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Different from: self-reflection
backfeeding
Used by: closed system
self-tuning
control loop
Studied by: control theory
Dewey Decimal Classification (works and editions): 629.83
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Members / parts: positive feedback
negative feedback
Facet of: control system

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