Aging as a Loss of Goal-Directedness: an Evolutionary Simulation and Analysis
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Researchers propose that aging can be understood as a loss of goal-directedness, supported by an evolutionary simulation, sparking interest in the scientific community.
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"Here, we formulate and compu- tationally simulate a fundamentally different hypothesis based on the nature of morphogenesis as a homeodynamic system working toward anatomical setpoints: that aging is the result of a proto-cognitive dysfunction among the cellular collective, and does not require damage or evolved antagonistic mechanisms in order to occur"