Constraint shapes potential; phase and alignment organise it. Yet relational potential is not only patterned — it monitors and modulates itself. This is the domain of feedback and reflexivity, the semantic operators through which the field produces emergent meaning.
Feedback as Semiotic Operator
Feedback loops operate within the relational field by sensing the state of system realisations and adjusting them dynamically. They are not merely corrective; they modulate co-conditioning, redistribute phase, and influence the availability of options across the system network.
Feedback is the field interpreting itself: relational potentials act both as realisations and sensors, producing continuous adjustment and enabling emergent coherence.
Reflexivity and Recursive Modulation
Reflexivity occurs when the field recognises its own organisation. Each realisation contributes to the collective pattern while simultaneously adjusting to it.
Through reflexivity, the system generates second-order effects: emergent configurations that arise not from external imposition but from the system observing and modulating its own realisations. Semiotic patterns are thus recursively produced, refined, and transformed.
Semantic Implications
Feedback and reflexivity function as the semantics of relational potential. If phase and alignment organise realisations and constraints delimit them, reflexivity interprets the patterns and modulates future activation. Each emergent configuration carries relational information, shaping the conditions for subsequent realisations and guiding systemic evolution.
Towards Fields of Weighted Potential
With reflexive modulation, the field is no longer passive but actively self-conditioning. The next post, Fields of Valence — Intensities of Becoming, will examine how gradients of relational weighting guide semiotic movement and influence which potentials are more likely to be realised in emerging configurations.
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