Guide & Control signals in a Bio-System

All bio-systems are dynamic. That means that they run down if not recharged. Recharging is done by acquiring survival assets. Assets are also bio-systems that run down (i.e. they are transient, indeed momentary). Assets are acquired by predation. The human is now the top predator.

The signals (or symptoms) given below happen as momentary affects

signalling momentary changes in relative survival capacity.

Traffic signals

G&C bio-signals

Localised physical signals Pain Comfort Pleasure

Generalised physical signal Unhappy Content Happy*

German Schmerz Wohl Freude

Greek Dysphoria Ataraxia* (unperturbed) Euphoria

Buddhist Dukkha Nirvana* (unperturbed) Sukkha

Bio-status Death Decaying Life

Bio-response signals Depressed Calm Elated

Relative survival capacity Decreased Steady Increased

Survival function Decelerating Waiting Accelerating

Action Past step Current step Next step

Survival action Lose Draw Win

Donkey Guide Stick Freedom Carrot

Surfing Analogy Behind the curve On the curve Ahead of the curve

* Note: In dynamic, hence predatory systems, amber, signifying idling (in waiting time or on standby, meaning: not-responding or running in neutral, i.e. in nirvana), actually happens as part of survival capacity decay.

* Note: The word ‘happy’ is derived from ‘hap’, and which when first invented meant ‘luck’. Originally a happy person was a lucky one, a hapless person an unlucky one.

Luck, so the atavistic belief went, depended on daemonic (or divine, e.g. Lady Luck) intervention (to wit, ‘grace’). more

* Ataraxia = Nirvana = Non-turbulence