The following scheme depicts the CA configuration in
the last experiments. Proliferon behavior is determined by a threshold
which is set by CA-4. At this
stage threshold = 25, so that the CA do
not deliver resources to each other. The proliferon is isolated.
In order for the loop to become active CA-4 has
to lower the threshold. As threshold declines the proliferon loses
its resources.
The scheme depicts resource (tolerance) exchange between the processes which is hidden from the observer. It cannot be measured, neither estimated. Only the structure may hint what the proliferon tolerance exchange rates are. We may observe the tolerance of the sentinel process. If it rises, proliferon gets better and vice versa. Yet even if its structure does not change, the rates may vary without our being aware of them.
The scheme illustrates also the hidden dimension of medicine. Tolerance exchange rates remain forever concealed from us. We observe structure, diagnose it and treat it. Yet some times treatment fails since it ignores tolerance. Like in cancer. Take for instance cancer prognosis which is assumed to be correlated with tumor size. Nevertheless a patient with a large tumor may outlive another one with a small tumor. Prognosis depends on structure as well as on tolerance. It is the latter which sustains the life of a patient regardless of tumor size (structure). Which causes great frustration to oncologists.
This hidden dimension is optimally controlled by WOB. It simply knows better than us. When failing to control processes it asks the mind (us) for help. Within the framework of “A New Kind of Medicine” WOB is regarded as a non linear black box with inputs and outputs. The task of medicine is to interpret its signals and to assist it in finding more optimal (healthier) solutions. Treatment has to be in accord with WOB demands.