{"slug":"oip-c07-feedback-cybernetics","title":"C07: Feedback, Cybernetics, and Homeostasis","body":"### 3.7 Feedback / cybernetics / homeostasis\nA 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.\n\n---\n\n## Corpus map\n- Same node, other planes: [Catalogue node C07](/a/oip-node-c07-feedback-cybernetics-homeostasis) · [Encyclopedia C07](/a/convergence-encyclopedia-c07)\n- Catalogue hub: [Public Article](/a/oip-convergence-public-article)","register":"oip_protocol","tags":["OIP","catalogue","node","cybernetics"],"category":null,"style":{},"claims":[{"id":"c1","text":"A system senses its output and corrects.","section":"## 3.7 Feedback / cybernetics / homeostasis","tier":"mechanistic","source_ids":[],"source_status":"unsourced","why_material":"Core definition of the feedback mechanism central to the node."},{"id":"c2","text":"The dual of feedback / cybernetics / homeostasis is open-loop or runaway.","section":"## 3.7 Feedback / cybernetics / homeostasis","tier":"mechanistic","source_ids":[],"source_status":"unsourced","why_material":"Explicit contrast property stated for the concept."},{"id":"c3","text":"A falsifier for feedback / cybernetics / homeostasis is a stable adaptive system with no feedback channel.","section":"## 3.7 Feedback / cybernetics / homeostasis","tier":"mechanistic","source_ids":[],"source_status":"unsourced","why_material":"Test criterion provided for the concept."},{"id":"c4","text":"Feedback / cybernetics / homeostasis maps to A₁₂ (recursion) and A₃.","section":"## 3.7 Feedback / cybernetics / homeostasis","tier":"mechanistic","source_ids":[],"source_status":"unsourced","why_material":"Explicit mapping relation stated for the node."}],"sources":[],"prov":{"model":"Fable 5 (Claude Code)","action":"write"}}