The Importance of Negative Feedback Loops

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A negative feedback loop feeds back on itself in a negative way to limit the range of possibilities. A positive feedback loop drives body temperature up and gives you a fever, which can help cure an infection. But when the infection melts away, then you have negative feedback loops that come back on and suppress the positive. So it's the balance between these feedback loops that's just as important. And chaotic systems don't have any randomness in them inherently but there's always some randomness.

Neil Theise is a professor of pathology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Through his scientific research, he has been a pioneer of adult stem cell plasticity and the anatomy of the human interstitium. Dr. Theise’s studies in complexity theory have led to interdisciplinary collaborations in fields such as integrative medicine, consciousness studies, and science-religion dialogue.

Complexity theory addresses the mysteries that animate science, philosophy, and metaphysics: how this teeming array of existence, from the infinitesimal to the infinite, is in fact a seamless living whole and what our place, as conscious beings, is within it. Physician, scientist, and philosopher Neil Theise makes accessible this “theory of being,” one of the pillars of modern science, and its holistic view of human existence.

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