{
  "handle": "Dampen",
  "mechanism": "The reduction of {{signal}} intensity or {{value}} magnitude in response to resistance or {{noise}}. It acts as a negative feedback loop to prevent oscillation or runaway amplification.",
  "gloss": "Passive attenuation of signal or force",
  "_meta": {
    "tier": 1,
    "ring": 0,
    "supersedes": [
      "sema:Dampen#mh:SHA-256:ff89ddbb26a7021d281d787f24c4fc91f28b438591e0133a0439675f7eab4204",
      "sema:Dampen#mh:SHA-256:5edd829087aefc086843183dd2361355777d5c2237456e2de72f315e45ffc3a4"
    ],
    "path": [
      "Physics",
      "Primitives"
    ]
  },
  "sema_ref": "Dampen#c07e",
  "sema_id": "sema:Dampen#mh:SHA-256:c07e9b7b22cbda8523effcfd455f554578e47081f0d07bf9001e45f2a871b831",
  "sema_stub": "c07e",
  "invariants": [
    "Attenuation does not decrease as the resistance or {{noise}} that triggered it increases.",
    "A Dampen never increases the {{signal}} it is applied to."
  ],
  "failure_modes": [
    "Signal lost with the noise: the trigger is {{noise}} and the response is on magnitude, so an undiscriminating Dampen attenuates the {{value}} too.",
    "Damping the correction: applied to the control signal rather than the disturbance, it stabilises at the wrong value."
  ],
  "dependencies": {
    "references": {
      "noise": "sema:Noise#mh:SHA-256:fd120b472352611acc251c4c87b08d06ae1187f9f4775d8a69b4ff9b326d2569",
      "signal": "sema:Signal#mh:SHA-256:6eaff8a06e08e75279670bc09d88175d130815240fdfb3a21252c0364769c1fc",
      "value": "sema:Value#mh:SHA-256:37fd75758d04cdd7f57a636ccb5394d463713d60c33b694e37ab71f4a5a896f8"
    }
  },
  "sema_layer": "Physics",
  "sema_category": "Primitives",
  "used_by": {
    "composes_with": {
      "Compromise": "sema:Compromise#mh:SHA-256:f25faa26653b11458535137532cbad87182ed5e5415ec590bc174877d51f985c"
    },
    "references": {
      "Crystallize": "sema:Crystallize#mh:SHA-256:0642166a22e385c83630c6648dc0ce2487257939856188895c85030eecf5bfb1",
      "Hysteresis": "sema:Hysteresis#mh:SHA-256:c2d174f3fa513ed81bcd5b731aa651a3e4662a671748e514d758582657a5bf9a",
      "Resonate": "sema:Resonate#mh:SHA-256:786d8bf55b013d0405e49f2cab6a084e45fdc4507f7394fd6cff99354bc87aad"
    }
  }
}