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| network of relationships among parts, elements, or components that interact with and influence one another through the exchange of energy, matter, or info. |
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| when a system's output can be served as input to that same system |
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| output that results from a system acts as input that moves the system in the other direction; input and output neutralize one another, stabilizing the system |
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| they drive it further to an extreme, increased output leads to increased input which leads to even more output |
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| in a system stabilized by negative feedback, when the processes move in opposing directions at equivalent rates so that their effects balance out |
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