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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Replying to @vgr
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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Replying to @arigesher @AriDavidPaul
aging is definitely a source of trauma creep for sure, perhaps co-extensive with it in a broader sense of aging that includes communities, companies, countries etc.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @vgr @AriDavidPaul
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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(Which is off topic from your main question, but an interesting little rabbit hole to fall into)
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That active fight against entropy is literally the definition of what it means to be alive.
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Yeah... Chaitin has an interesting paper on that. I like that bunnytrail a lot.
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Replying to @vgr @AriDavidPaul
My favorite footnote on that is the realization that life is hastening the heat death of the universe by increasing global entropy in its efforts to maintain local order.
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Similar pattern: tidal generation systems will hasten the loss of Earth’s moon.
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