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)
I don’t know but I think it’s something like a network effect startup disrupting the body or something
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in a primordial pool of amino acids, I might suggest the first appearance of (self replicating) RNA is just such a disruption. again feels like its verging on the living though [cancer suggests to me there must be some "death" of the system at the end]
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here's one that's almost the reverse: the ice-albedo feedback loop for planetary cooling. Once starts forming enough ice, the increased reflection lowers the solar energy intake thus leading to more ice and lower temps until entire planet is frozen tundra
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