Vitality
and Health
We continue exploring ways to enhance tolerance
accumulation. The present design
is a directed loop , in which each CA stimulates
its follower. CA-3 does not stimulate CA-1. The parameters
are:
delivery activation: [state[1, set point = p[1] - 0.1, state[0,1]];
delivery: [2,1, While[p[1] > set point], 2];
change state: [state[1, i+1] = state[0. 1], state[0, 1]];
change state: [state[2, i+1] = state[0. 1], state[0, 1]];
change state: [state[3, i+1] = state[0. 1], state[0, 1]];
If[ p[1] > p[2], augment state: [state[2,i+1]
+= state[1, i]]
If[ p[2] > p[3], augment state: [state[3,i+1] += state[2,
i]]
Each CA produces more tolerance.
An analogy with Newton’s
laws of motion
The isolated CA accumulates tolerance at
a constant rate v. Already v[CA-1] is faster than v[CA-0] (the
stem process). When the three CA were created, they were isolated.
Later on CA-0 activated the above functions, and CA tolerance accumulation
accelerated. Tolerance behavior
reminds of Newton’s
laws of motion, with its two basic functions:
Velocity : which stands here for tolerance accumulation
rate.
Acceleration: which is initiated by the augment state function.
Even Newton’s first law of motion, is relevant. The
Law of Inertia states
that: “every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform
motion.. . “ In the present context it is rephrased as follows:
Every CA system maintains homeorhesis (or a solution).
Momentum
What about
Newton’s
second law does it apply as well? Let’s examine first the concept
of momentum p=mv:
Here we encounter
the two variables a, and v which handle tolerance. The
third, known as mass assumes here a different meaning
which will be illustrated by the next experiment.
CA-1
is isolated and accumulates tolerance at a constant velocity. CA-2 behaves
differently. Initially its tolerance accumulation accelerates, then
it decelerates and the CA loses what it gained.
Although both accumulate tolerance and obey the first Law, their
fate depends on an additional factor, the m-factor,
which sustains CA-1 all along,
while failing to sustain CA-2.
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The nature of the
m-factor is unknown. In the isolated CA-1 the m-factor is predictable,
since the CA does not accelerate. However once CA start interacting
the m-factor becomes unpredictable. It may maintain
some, like CA-1, for ever, or drive other highly successful CA into
oblivion. It emerges with the proliferon, and its nature cannot be foreseen.
It is an ingredient of the Wisdom of
the Body (WOB). The wellbeing of a CA depends on both factors.
And so does health.
Tolerance: is the system’s
capacity to maintain itself and resist
damage. The greater the damage a system can resist the higher its
tolerance. Tolerance is proportional to the system’s resources.
Like momentum, health depends on both variables, tolerance
velocity and m, and may be expressed in the same way as momentum.
Newton’s third law does not apply. CA defy any symmetry, and
so does life.
Why
this analogy?
The
equation is a metaphor which defines health and vitality,
the essential concepts of The
New Kind of Medicine. Since
being non-linear it obviously differs from Newton’s
laws which are linear. Nevertheless you may envisage a space in which
tolerance and mass are defined by the same equations like Newton’s.
Still, you might regard factor-m as weird. What about mass and gravity
are they more meaningful?