This text presents a critical analysis of the concept of "feedback" and distinguishes it from genuine activity and reaction. The author challenges the common notion that feedback is merely a direct consequence of an initial action. Using examples ranging from mechanical valves to human consciousness, the text demonstrates that any meaningful reaction requires an independent origin and a specific center that cannot be reduced to external impulses. The work rejects positivist and Marxist interpretations that reduce consciousness to a mere product of a material base. Instead, it emphasizes that a subject's reaction always contains an element of original activity that transcends the external stimulus. This capacity for transcendence is evident in the increasing utilization of natural resources and in biological innovations such as chlorophyll. The author concludes that the higher the level of the reacting subject, the more significant its active contribution becomes. This contribution cannot be explained as a mechanical continuation of external influence, but rather as a manifestation of an autonomous source and creativity.