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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is the basic idea that something in a non-living complex system is spawned that resource-hogs all the other system components? [black hole jumps to mind, but still feels off]
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part of my mental block I think is I'm not even quite sure how to think about 'resource-hogging' outside of living systems / ecosystems. Feel like maybe not getting to a high enough abstraction level when considering what cancer *is*
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