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The aim of this paper is twofold. First, we shall derive the Fermi-Dirac (FD) and Bose-Einstein (BE) distributions from the classical Maxwell-Boltzmann (MB) distribution by introducing into the classical system the consequences of quantum mechanical indistinguishability in a direct and simple manner. Next, we go through a brief introduction to feedback systems and see how the FD and BE systems may be viewed as classical systems with appropriate feedback. We shall see that the resemblance to feedback systems is more than formal and that a feedback mechanism does exist in systems obeying quantum statistical mechanics.