Quilts of interlocked loops of different scales create a resilient, evolving fabric.

Feedback requires loops.

Interlocked within a scale like chain mail.

Then embedded in loops at larger and larger abstraction scales.

An antifragile field of adaptation.

Every loop is constantly spinning, which allows small perturbations to amplify to significant changes.

The field is already rotating, it just needs to offset its angle by a bit, and doesn't need to get itself going from a standstill.

Dynamic equilibrium, not static equilibrium.

Metastable, but constantly whirring right on the edge of a phase transition when required.

The predictive processing model of human cognition implies this multi-scale chainmail of mutually reinforcing and influencing feedback loops.