Process injury
We continue with the previous experiment and explore the effect of injury on the system.. At time = 25 an external agent killed CA-2. After a short pause, stem process created a new CA-2. Despite its complete regeneration, stem process (CA-1) failed to create a new CA-4. Whenever its count was 25, it computed an initial state for CA-4, which proved to be nonviable, and CA-4 died in the subsequent state. Since injury changed CA-2 phase the system computation failed to create a viable CA-4. Following injury the system created a new solution which was less healthy than that of an uninjured system.
In the following experiment CA-2 was injured at time = 29. Its right most bit was set to zero (white). While regenerating CA-1 attempted to create a new CA-4 which subsequently died. Ultimately the stem process succeeded creating a healthy CA-4 and the system regained its full health. (CA-3 is not depicted).
In the last experiment CA-2 was injured at time=39. Nevertheless stem process succeeded to create a viable CA-4, with a different structure, which was eliminated when CA-1[count] = 25, whereupon the system regained its original health. (CA-3 is not depicted.).
After recovering from the injury, the system of the first
experiment lost some health and remained
less healthy. The
other two systems also lost some
health, yet regained it after a brief interval. A multi-process
system, like our body, may gain or lose health,
however it does not become
unhealthy. This concept is simply
irrelevant. Unfortunately medicine fails to appreciate this fact and regards
structural aberrations as unhealthy. In reality a structural aberration like the one in the first
experiment always maintains some health.
In the first experiment injury lead to the loss of
a computation (function), which was
previously activated when CA-1[count] = 25. Since CA-4 was not created, system structure changed, which
is generally conceived by us (the observer) as disease.
Although injury hit only CA-2,
damage was systemic, since the computation
of CA-4 = CA-2 + CA-3 involves the entire system. Structurally, damage
may seem to be localized, yet the functional effect is systemic.
Failing to consider that all processes in the body interact, medicine distinguishes between
localized and systemic diseases. In reality nothing in the body is strictly
localized, and diseases are systemic. The term 'localized disease' is simply irrelevant. Like in cancer, which is supposed
to start as a localized disease evolving into a systemic. From its very
beginning cancer is systemic,
which is the main argument of
this site,
The injured system
has several ways to repair itself:
1. Stem process may trigger alternative computations, e.g., by setting
CA-1[count]=21. The outcome may compensate for the loss, yet the system
will be less healthy than the uninjured one.
2. Stem process is killed by apoptosis and replaced by a new one. Apoptosis is a mechanism which removes injured cells (processes).
Further reading: Injury
and Repair