A debate on whether medicine should look beyond the disease label to the capacities illness disrupts. This episode examines the tension between biomedical precision and whole-person care, asking how clinicians can preserve diagnostic speed while considering adaptive reserve, treatment burden, structural conditions, agency, function, and genuine recovery. Read More
A deep dive into why patients are ecosystems, not machines. This episode introduces the Life-Coherent Clinical Loop: danger-first thinking, syndrome construction, capacity mapping, coupling conditions, wise perturbation, and repair trajectories that measure whether the person—not merely the laboratory numbers—is becoming safer, clearer, stronger, and more supported. Read More
The concept of biological mimicry is viewed as a ‘process of life’ theory rather than a ‘process of change’ theory—regardless of the historical interest and heuristic value of the subject for the study of evolution. Mimicry is a dynamic ecological system reflecting the possibilities for mutualism and parasitism created by a pre-established bipartite signal-based relationship between two organisms – a potential model and its signal receiver (potential operator). In a mimicry system agency and perception play essential, interconnected roles. Mimicry thus describes emergent biologically meaningful relationships based on synergy, and is not an object-based theory. Biosemiotics offers a particularly valuable discipline for analysing the dynamics and nuances of mimicry systems, and can thus pave the way for a better and more complete understanding of how mimicry has evolved in the past, and how it might evolve in the future—presented here with special reference to the need for an integrated, ‘third way of evolution’ approach to biological relativity. A revised definition of mimicry is proposed.
