Rejuvenation and Cancer
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* Science allows the self-rejuvenation by “granting the right” to create new theories and to explore new ways to explain nature. This freedom can lead to subsystems with the capacity to threaten the whole scientific system, for example in form of a paradigm shift. | * Science allows the self-rejuvenation by “granting the right” to create new theories and to explore new ways to explain nature. This freedom can lead to subsystems with the capacity to threaten the whole scientific system, for example in form of a paradigm shift. | ||
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| + | In a 1995 essay "Eternal Fascism", Umberto Eco attempts to | ||
| + | list general properties of fascist ideology. One could add | ||
| + | "lack of differentiation", "uncontrolled growth" beyond | ||
| + | the normal limits, invasion of adjacent systems, and | ||
| + | generally "malignant, aggressive and egoistic behavior" | ||
| + | to the list - the hallmarks of cancer. | ||
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| + | Fascism is a bit like cancer for politics. The political | ||
| + | system allows the self-rejuvenation by granting the rights | ||
| + | to demonstrate and to found new parties. This can lead | ||
| + | to an ideology like fascism, which spreads and growths | ||
| + | like cancer, and eventually destroys the old system | ||
| + | completely. Cancer is the result of a self-renewal or | ||
| + | self-rejuvenation which has gone wrong. It is a bit like | ||
| + | the evolution of an ancient or alien life form inside of the | ||
| + | own system which is normally prohibited, and cancer | ||
| + | development is a remarkably similar to the process | ||
| + | of embryonic development and evolution itself. | ||
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In general, if a [[Complex_Adaptive_System|complex adaptive system]] has a built-in self-rejuvenation ability, and it grants it’s agents the rights to create and to found new elements, these elements can severely damage or threaten the function of the whole system. Any system which is able to remould and reinvent itself can replace itself by something else. | In general, if a [[Complex_Adaptive_System|complex adaptive system]] has a built-in self-rejuvenation ability, and it grants it’s agents the rights to create and to found new elements, these elements can severely damage or threaten the function of the whole system. Any system which is able to remould and reinvent itself can replace itself by something else. | ||
[[Category:Cancer]] | [[Category:Cancer]] | ||
