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What is Self-Regulating System

Chapter 11
Handbook of Research on Global Media’s Preternatural Influence on Global Technological Singularity, Culture, and Government
A system that has the capacity to maintain its own balance, also called equilibrium or homeostasis. It employs at least one negative feedback loop between its components to accomplish this. In a Self-Regulating Adaptive System, the system is also able to influence, change or even determine the state of balance it is aiming for. This latter feature means the presence of a feedforward mechanism and thereby also some level of intelligence. In a Living Self-Regulating Adaptive System, the system is, on top of the aforementioned features, able to alter its own structure, including generating new components and connections, in order to accomplish both the keeping of its equilibrium as well as the setting of new states of balance.
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Desire: Life as a Drama Based Game or the Thermodynamics of Everything
Robertus D. Heijnen (Independent Researcher, The Netherlands)
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 29
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8884-0.ch011
Abstract
Through the argument that the concept of phase transition also applies to the unfolding of the information processing system that is creation, the author arrives at the phase stage described in the Standard Model of particle physics, where this system and the information flowing through it also form a part that gets coupled to matter and spacetime. The author then concludes that this stage, together with those that came before it, form one complex cybernetic processing system which allows for information to flow back and forth through various feedback and feedforward loops. Further arguments are that the sources for the information flowing through this system are coming from Desire in the broadest sense of the word, as the main, driving feedforward loop; with emotion—as a further explication of motion—as the regulating feedback loop; and that combined they account for the fluctuation called life.
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The Texture of Inefficiently Self-Regulating ESL Systems
First proposed by Wolfgang Iser in The Act of Reading (1978), the concept of the text as a self-regulating cybernetic system was more precisely formulated by Robert De Beaugrande in Text, Discourse and Process (1980). According to De Beaugrande, “The stability of the text as a cybernetic system … is characterized by its connectivities, i.e. unbroken access among the occurring elements of the participating language systems.” In other words, a text will contain “sequential connectivity of grammatical dependencies in the surface text,” “conceptual connectivity” and “planning connectivity” (p. 17). In a study of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist, Murphy (2005a) extended the concept of the self-regulating textual system to the nineteenth century novel by explaining how a reader might process the discrepancies discovered in the clash of directly quoted character speech. These discrepancies are resolved by means of the conversation monitoring of the narrative voice.
Published in Chapter: The Texture of Inefficiently Self-Regulating ESL Systems; From: Handbook of Research on Computer-Enhanced Language Acquisition and Learning
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