Closure classified

Sort your situation into one of three buckets: a real closed feedback circuit, an open dynamic where something accumulates or queues but nothing returns, or no ongoing dynamic at all. If it is closed, say what travels back upstream. Either way, name what stores the past.

Sort your situation into one of three buckets: a real closed feedback circuit, an open dynamic where something accumulates or queues but nothing returns, or no ongoing dynamic at all. If it is closed, say what travels back upstream. Either way, name what stores the past.

Example

You call the fight cycle closed feedback and name the return path: last night's argument raises tonight's guardedness, which raises the odds of the next fight. What stores the past is stored resentment plus the habit of eating dinner in separate rooms.