<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Dear All,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Yes, why not discuss a detail before having a general picture of the whole system. One may work one's way forward from the specific to the general. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Task: </div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:aptos,aptos_embeddedfont,aptos_msfontservice,calibri,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">As we all know, negative feedback stabilizes, while positive feedback amplifies the initial minor differences.]</span></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">We assume a set of facts, about which both participants of a discussion A, B are in agreement. </div><div dir="auto">The opinions about the set of facts is what is different in the heads of A, B. </div><div dir="auto">Both A, B have insight into their own set of opinions, and both have a set of hypotheses about the set of opinions of the other.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Peter states that we all know that a statement or action that is <u>negative</u> from any of the participants relative to initial minor differences directed at the other participant will <u>decrease</u> the extent of the differences, while a statement or action that is <u>positive</u> from any of the participants relative to initial minor differences, will increase the extent of differences.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In the form formulated here (maybe I have misunderstood something), this feedback system looks rather unusual. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Can we please have a bit more of context regarding the effects of the feedback and whether the facts on the ground can also be changed.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This question will surely be worked on in diverse War Academies, also in the form of dissemination of manipulating messages, irrespective of the truth content. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In practical life, one sees these kinds of feedback processes in jailhouses (threatening into learned helplessness) resp in arenas (cheerleaders whip into frenzy). </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Is this the type of feedback loops that you want to discuss?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thank you for focusing. </div><div dir="auto">Karl </div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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