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Is there a concept like antihormesis where steady, accumulating responses to stressors with insufficient recovery makes you more fragile rather than antifragile? Feels strange that this obvious default case and normal chronic stress response but has no word. Fragilization?
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Can’t think of a general term, but we have lots of local ones. Wear and tear, corrosion, breaking down, burnt out, depreciation of physical assets, etc.
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Those terms are good for the symptoms but don’t capture the progressive unraveling of system integrity as it degrades from complex living system to pull of entropic mass energy.
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Everything degraded over time due to entropy. Living things just pull and use energy from their environment to fight back entropy as long as they can. Aging is degradation of the meta-system that fights entropy.
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we know of some biological organisms that don’t degrade at all over time, like some jellyfish. Aging appears to be organism specific, not due to general stressors, but specific mechanisms (lack of cell plasticity, telomere shortening, etc.)
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