antiaging and antifragility - shima beigi
DESCRIPTION
TRANSCRIPT
Anti-Ageing vs Anti-Fragile
Shima BeigiPhD. Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Bristol24th of May 2014
The Second Symposium Pathways to Indefinite Lifespan
Ingredients
• About my background • Complexity as a shared language • The role of engineering in shaping biology of ageing • Transcending the overview effect • Conclusion
My Background
• EIA Petrochemical Systems• Man-made systems, edge between complex and complicated BSc Environmental Engineering
• Sustainable Tourism vs Responsible Tourism • Technology can transcend culture. MSc Water and Environmental
Management
• A Generic Framework for Resilience of Complex Adaptive Systems
• Resilience as a verbPhD Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Rock climbing is a complex adaptive system• Fitness is about working with body’s innate adaptive
capacity. Rock Climber, Fitness Instructor
A Shared Language
Complexity Theory
Medical Science
Management
Control and Safety
Environmental Science
Politics
Social Science
System Engineering
Supply Chain Management
The Collaborative Nature of Ageing
What is the Role of Engineering in Altering the Biology of Ageing Process?
Nassim TalebAnti-Fragile Systems
• What is the opposite of fragility?• Evolution benefits from nonlinear exposure to stress for improving anti-
fragility at systemic level.• Man made systems tend to eliminate randomness, hence increase fragility. • We can use errors as a source of information.
Anti-Fragility vs Anti-Ageing or
Anti-Fragility = Anti-Ageing
Extremes: Life, Death and the Limits of the Human Body
A Collaborative Effort Against the Limits Set by Entropy
Health and Dis-ease Continuum • Aaron Antonovsky defines health as “the state of that system we call
human organism which manifests a given level of order”.
The Promotion of Health is Utilised by Sense of Coherence (SOC)
Less Ageing by More Resiliencing
Social-Ecological Systems are: • Open• Complex • Evolving • Self-organising • Nonlinearity • Cybernetic• Destruction as a part of growth
cycle (i.e., Forest)
“Resilience is the capacity of system to absorb shocks while undergoing change so as to still retain essentially the same structure, function, identity and feedback”.
(Walker, Holling et al. 2004)
Resiliencing Guided Self-organisation + Consciously Absorbing
Shocks
Transcending the Overview Effect
“We went up as technicians and came down as humanitarians” Edgar Mitchell
It is the Human Mind, Stupid!
• Politics
It’s the Economy
• Enlightened Leadership
It’s the Physiology• Smart Cities
It’s the People
• Resilience and Sustainable Systems
It’s the Mind
Conclusion
• Ageing is: • A systemic process• Complex • Multidimensional• Inherently collaborative
Technology Can Steer Us Towards A Smarter Ageing Process
The Emergence of A Smarter Planet?
References
Agus, D. B. (2012). The End of Illness, Free PressAntonovsky, A. (1996). "The Salutogenic model as a theory to guide health promotion." Health Promotion International 11(1): 11-18.Taleb, N. N. (2012). Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, Random House Publishing Group.Walker, B., et al. (2004). "Resilience, adaptability and transformability in social-ecological systems." Ecology and Society 9(2).