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# Corrective Loops

> A working definition written for this wiki from the reading notes; not Antikythera's own wording. From Antikythera Wiki (https://antikythera.wiki/terms/corrective-loops), an independent guide to Antikythera's published work.

Antikythera's name for the regulatory feedback that, in Maughan's Infinity Mirror, separates a technosphere that lasts from one that fails; the article itself says only feedback loops. Following Frank, Grinspoon and Walker, Maughan contrasts a biosphere that learned over deep time to damp perturbations with Haff's fossil-fuel "synthetic corona," which pushes coupled systems into states nobody can yet steer. Maturing means installing such loops deliberately; Maughan's thesis is that simulation is where they get built: climate models, digital twins and Earth-2 are meant to sense a disturbance, run it forward and trigger the answer, the 1990s CFC response and asteroid-deflection tests being early specimens. Digital Twin is the unit, Mature Technosphere / Class V Planet the threshold, Recursive Governance the political extension. Agüera y Arcas's Daisyworld chapter concurs; Sherman's Planetary Platform Automation cautions that Gaia's homeostasis was only ever temporary and that planetary regulation proceeds by rupture too.

## Appears in

- [What Is Intelligence?](https://antikythera.wiki/work/book/what-is-intelligence) (2025-09-23)
- [Infinity Mirror](https://antikythera.wiki/work/journal/infinitymirror) (2025-05-10)
- [After Alignment](https://antikythera.wiki/work/journal/afteralignment) (2025-05-10)
- [The Planetary](https://antikythera.wiki/work/book/the-planetary) (2024-11-10)

_Glossary generated 2026-09-06._