{"id":"correctors-that-also-drift","title":"Correcting a system with imperfect correctors","regions":["physical-systems","reflexivity"],"question":"How can an analog system correct its own error when correction components also drift?","formulation":"An analog signal is proposed to feed both processing and compensating paths. Because the correcting components also accumulate error, a finite practical cascade needs a stopping criterion.","representations":[{"name":"A fixed correction component","affords":"Offers a simple compensation step.","loses":"Its own drift can become an untracked error source.","epistemic_kind":"reconstruction"},{"name":"A cascade of corrections","affords":"Makes successive residual errors visible.","loses":"More stages can add noise, delay, and resource costs instead of converging.","epistemic_kind":"reconstruction"}],"tension":"Correcting a corrector repeats the original problem at another level.","challenge":"What bound on residual error justifies stopping after a finite number of stages?","development":"independent_branch","epistemic_kind":"reconstruction","evidence":["basis-correctors-that-also-drift"],"next_move":{"text":"Use bounded component models to compare cascade depth, accumulated noise, residual error, and resource use.","epistemic_kind":"model_proposed"},"open_questions":["How can an analog system correct its own error when correction components also drift?","What bound on residual error justifies stopping after a finite number of stages?"],"formal_status":"open_problem","version":1,"content_hash":"a0ea7487653d79d23bf6bd227ff684c3d2b9e420417c564c839f8fcac194218b"}