Systemic Feedback Loops in Closed-Loop Bureaucracies
This research investigates how closed systems, devoid of external accountability, develop self-referential validation cycles that mirror LHS psychological structures.
Bureaucracies that utilize internal audit teams to evaluate their own effectiveness often fall into a trap of circular validation.
Using the Powell-Rad Path, we identify this as the 'False Mirror' electrode, where the system validates its own existence regardless of output.
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