It has been a while since I have listed a puzzle and I've been contacted by a few people asking "when will we see your next puzzle"? Apparently, people like "floatenpuzzles". I solved a puzzle the other day which reminded me of an idea I have been wanting to use in our area.
This is not supposed to be a hard puzzle. Have fun.
Automatic and Controlled Processes are the two categories of cognitive processing. All cognitive processes fall into one or both of those two categories. The amounts of “processing power”, attention, and effort a process requires is the primary factor used to determine whether it’s a controlled or an automatic process. An automatic process is capable of occurring without the need for attention, and the awareness of the initiation or operation of the process, and without drawing upon general processing resources or interfering with other concurrent thought processes. Put simply, an automatic process is unintentional, involuntary, effortless (not consumptive of limited processing capacity), and occurring outside awareness. Controlled Processes are defined as a process that is under the flexible, intentional control of the individual, that he or she is consciously aware of, and that are effortful and constrained by the amount of attentional resources available at the moment.
Feedback occurs when outputs of a system are routed back as inputs as part of a chain of cause-and-effect that forms a circuit or loop. The system can then be said to feed back into itself. The notion of cause-and-effect has to be handled carefully when applied to feedback systems.
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