Most of us who watched Sixth Sense experienced an epistemological crisis. An epistemological crisis occurs when new information – a new truth – arrives in the feedback loop that challenges everything we already thought we believed to be true, forcing us to rewrite our former story with a new schema. Sometimes information introduced to an individual – a new truth – forces what we call an epistemological crisis. There is a very special kind of feedback loop, though, that does something more that just illuminate paths that might be taken in the future. What we witness in the marginalia of Eric and Jen’s writing is a concrete example of cybernetics at play: continuous feedback as both Eric and Jen learn more about each other and about themselves with each new message between them. The act of writing creates a feedback loop between author and reader. Then the feedback loop repeats.Ĭommunications between two people always include feedback loops.
The individual selects one path of illumination, recalibrating his/her behavior accordingly.Insights – creative leaps (as the author of Godel, Escher, Back would call them) – from the new information drive the individual to continue to write his/her story with the new paths of choice that are illuminated.The irrelevancies of that data are stripped away and what matters is emotionally conveyed to the individual for rumination.In summary, a feedback loop’s four stages explained in a way that are contextualized for S are Then that action is measured, and the feedback loop can run once more, every action stimulating new behaviors that inch us closer to our goals. There must be a clear moment when the individual can recalibrate a behavior, make a choice, and act. The information must illuminate one or more paths ahead. But even compelling information is useless if we don’t know what to make of it, so we need a third stage: consequence. Second, the information must be relayed to the individual, not in the raw-data form in which it was captured but in a context that makes it emotionally resonant. First comes the data: A behavior must be measured, captured, and stored. The best summary on this subject I have seen is from a Wired Magazine article that says…Ī feedback loop involves four distinct stages. It would also help before we continue to make sure we all understand the basics of cybernetics(from the Greek word kybernetes, which means steersman or governor) , along with its most basic concept: the feedback loop. To orient ourselves, here are a few previous blog posts that help set the stage. It is my hope that an explanation of this armature helps us do just that. We still need to work together to solve the remaining mysteries of S. Here is a beginning framework of what it means to follow the monkey.
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