In article: <o6CmvAbGBh107h at chambers.ak.planet.co.nz>
steve at chambers.ak.planet.co.nz (Steve Chambers) writes:
> Many Processes
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> This thread appears to have mirrored the vaguaries of evolution and
> suffered some form of semantic drift. I originally proposed that
> aging (of whole individual organisms) might better be seen as a
> complex interaction of many (not-necessarily universal) processes -
> many of which are known.
Could not the process that we call ageing merely be a summation of side
effects of the process we call healthy life?
If life is a system of a large number of variables and feedback loops all
trying to keep the system stable, then Chaos theory shows that eventually
the process of stabilisation must fail. I suspect that there is quite a lot
we can do to put off the evil day, but without a total redesign of the
system we will never be able to totally eliminate ageing.
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