topological defect (was: The golden number?)

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[From Chad Green (2014.08.27, 12:57 ET)]

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        Rick

wrote: “But with the emergence of negative feedback control
organizations there was also the emergence of right and
wrong.� By negative feedback control organizations are you
referring to topological defects/solitons perchance:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_defect ?

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[From Rick Marken (2014.08.27.1525)]

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Martin Taylor (2014.08.27.16.06)_-

MT: The essential point of a control system is not the negative feedback

as such, but the delivery of energy from a separate source to
counter the effects of external disturbances.

RM: How about they are both essential, since the delivery of energy from a separate source will reinforce rather than counter the effects of external disturbances if the energy is delivered in a positive feedback loop (in which case you get the loop input variable “running away”, as in microphone feedback, rather than being controlled).

Best

Rick

Richard S. Marken, Ph.D.
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