Attractors do not exit as such in our organism. You may detect
in the organism many so called attractors, like EEG, blood glucose, hormone
levels red blood cell count etc. However neither is independent from the other.
They all interact, which means that each determines the attractor state of
all the others. There does not exist an attractor hierarchy from lower attractors
upwards.
At best the attractor concept is a metaphor which assists us to grasp the
complexity of the organism. You may regard the organism as a self organizing
complexity. This capability to organize itself I attribute to a wisdom which
I call Wisdom of the Body (WOB). It is a metaphor which highlights the fact
that one wisdom controls all the putative sub-attractors. It is inborn and
evolves from birth to death. At any instant it selects the most optimal attractor
for our existence.
Medicine still operates under the spell of attractor hierarchies which it inherited from the exact sciences. Take for instance diabetes mellitus which according to medicine is a disease of the glucose attractor, while in reality it is a disease of the entire organism. The preoccupation of medicine with the glucose attractor harms patients and is discussed in depth in my site:
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