Has a behavior regime structurally similar to cancer been found in any non-living complex system?
Or is it purely rhetorical/metaphoric, as in "growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell" (environmentalist Edward Abbey)
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Cryptocurrency?
(Said tongue in cheek... sort of.)
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Fractional reserve banking, debt currency and all the ills that flow on from it? ;)
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self-brainstorm: virus are non-living and exhibit "growth for growth sake." I think certain kinds of algae will strangle off pond ecosystems by covering the surface (I'm unclear if 'ecosystem' qualifies as a living system?).
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Systems without accountability (eg.costs of actions are borne by others)=> deleterious, yet like cancerous cells, invisible to system










