RE: Reliability Engineering applied to Humans (via kurzweilai.net)

[Guest guest]

I read this article when it first hit in Spectrum and found it a novel

perspective on how our bodies operate.

Rather than beginning as a perfect functioning machine that degrades over

time due to use and abuse, we start out as a successful but not perfectly

operational machine with an extremely robust correction/repair mechanism.

This correction/repair mechanism is what degrades or fails over time. This

also partially explains the evolutionary process of cobbling together

disparate systems and rewarding what works.

The CR connection may be the hormetic effect of energy restriction induced

stress, up-modulating this correction/repair mechanism.

It's always interesting when a mature science (reliability engineering) gets

applied to a different area and provides new insights. Perhaps more useful

to pursuit of CR or anti-aging mimetic, but still informative.

JR

-----Original Message-----

From: Dennis Gentry [mailto:gentry@...]

Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 3:52 AM

Cc: Dennis Gentry

Subject: [ ] Reliability Engineering applied to Humans (via

kurzweilai.net)

I hope this article is interesting to a significant percentage of you

CR folk:

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/sep04/0904age.html

or

http://tinyurl.com/6s6sx

It explains some of the observations in Dr. Walford's BT120YD.

Regards,

Dennis