Mind · Dynamics
Echohollow
A recurring practice keeps its outward form while its responsiveness to what it meets fades
Definition
Mechanism
Repetition keeps reproducing a recognisable practice while observations, circumstances or participants' responses have less influence on how it proceeds. The practice can still produce activity, records or small changes while losing the input-sensitive relation that made its repetitions responsive. Mere repetition is not an instance: a practice fixed from the outset never had the responsiveness to lose, and a considered decision that nothing needs to change is still a response.
Invariants
- The same recurring practice is identifiable across occasions.
- Its response to relevant differences in what it meets weakens over the interval considered.
Risks
Failure modes
Stability read as hollowness
a practice that keeps returning the same result because nothing relevant changed is taken to have stopped responding.
Variation read as responsiveness
small changes, such as a changing counter, are taken to show that the practice still responds.
Form judged alone
the practice is judged by its appearance without specifying which input-response relation is meant.
Relationships
Root pattern: builds on nothing in this library.
Nothing in this library builds on this pattern yet.
Reference