Closed systems only return what their initial data already contain

Evidence

The poet’s truth is also the desired truth of the other, whereas, precisely, the truth of a computer system is closed back upon its own sufficient Iogic. Moreover, every conclusion reached by such a system has been inscribed in the original data, whereas poetics open onto unpredictable and unheard of things. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 440

Categorization

• XREF: Pairs with the strategic-essentialism question: a system closed on its own sufficient logic (residence in essence) can only reproduce itself, whereas poetics/openness yields the new — the avoid-collapse mechanism Glissant offers.