Humans are not machines. We are complex adaptable systems. When challenged or perturbed (think physical training), we have the ability to recover, restore, and repair ourselves. This capacity to rebuild our own structure and even increase our complexity (increase adaptability) or specificity (idealize physiology for a specific environment) via hyperplasia of organelles (increase mitochondria), hypertrophy […]
stability
From my notebook: On Stability
Perceived threat to a self-organizing system will result in simplification of the system to reduce degrees of freedom and response time while simultaneously sacrificing adaptability. Humans will shift into the sagittal plane to reduce the degrees of freedom to simplify movement creating a more stable state. This will reduce system complexity and cortical effort and […]