In the previous experiment
following sentinel process injury the proliferon gradually settled at
a solution. During this course it lost most of its
resources (tolerance). Might it be feasible to preserve more
tolerance than in the previous experiment?
Consider the following options:
1. The stem process grows some isolated CA
(set point > 25) and lets them pour resources into
the system. This would be hardly effective since the resources would
be lost swiftly. Injury makes CA-2 smaller it keeps less resources and
flushes out any excess. The other
CA follow suit.
The present experiment illustrates a somewhat counter
intuitive solution. CA-2 is barred from getting resources. The overall
setting is the same as before. We start as before
and the proliferon becomes atrophic.
In the extreme
case CA-4 cuts off its delivery and becomes isolated.
Now CA-3 lacks any
opportunity to deliver its product to CA-4 and also
becomes isolated. CA-2 is left alone to deal with its injury. However
since CA-3 is isolated, CA-2 stops delivering to CA-3 and gets somewhat
bigger.