Feedback Loop

A feedback loop shows how an action changes a consequence and how that signal returns to reinforce, balance, or correct the next action.

• Use this when: actions and consequences repeat, reinforce, or correct one another.
• Do not use this when: one untested belief blocks the first responsible move.
• It helps you notice: what feeds the pattern, what measures it, and where correction returns.
• It may hide or distort: human choice by making it look mechanical or implying control you do not hold.
• Try this bounded move: change one authorised input and observe one complete return cycle.
• Watch this evidence: a changed consequence at the declared review point, including no change.
• Pair or compare it with: Assumption test.
• Stop, revise, or switch when: you cannot name a recurring cycle or observe its return signal.

Play one bounded round and keep the choice, stop rule, and interpretation of evidence under human authority.

Context

• Mental Models — choose another visible lens.
• Control loops — inspect the deeper system method.
• Reality — distinguish observation from interpretation.