You make decisions, take actions, affect the world, receive feedback from the world, incorporate it into yourself, then the updated 'you' makes more decisions, and so forth, 'round and 'round.

Douglas Hofstadter

Douglas Hofstadter

Actions Affect Decisions Feedback Forth Incorporate Make Makes More Receive Round Take Then Updated World You Yourself

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