On 8/19/13 3:36 PM, glen wrote:
I would maintain, however, ... just to be combative I suppose, that
such tight circularity can lead to just as much _distrust_ as it does
trust. In particular, systems consisting of lots of feedback (and
feedforward) loops would be more likely to exhibit unpredictable
transitions from one attractor basin to another.
Hmm. A possible example are mentor/student relationships where the
mentor apparently "cares enough" to torture/exploit/haze the talented
student, but lets the ordinary student coast through without scrutiny --
a psychological struggle for dominance that is a sort of destabilizing
feedback loop...
Marcus
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