The consequences of climate change and the recurrent shortage of vital resources produce an extreme and growing fragility of all systems, both biological and technical, subjected to continuous and increasingly less predictable disturbances. In this perspective, the strategy that pretends to maintain static equilibrium at any cost is ineffective. Therefore, we look with attention at the adaptive approach, based on reactivity, ability to self-repair individual parts and fault tolerance, which has always enabled living organisms to survive in hostile contexts. This attitude of biological systems to adopt dynamic responses to the perturbative actions of their balance proves to be extraordinarily effective and intrinsically efficient, to the point of proposing itself as a paradigm to be inspired to organize even artificial systems.

Le conseguenze del cambiamento climatico e le ricorrenti carestie di risorse vitali producono un’estrema e crescente fragilità di tutti i sistemi, sia biologici che tecnici, sottoposti a continue e sempre meno prevedibili perturbazioni. In questa prospettiva, la strategia che pretende di mantenere l’equilibrio statico a qualunque costo si rivela inefficace. Perciò oggi si guarda con attenzione all’approccio adattivo, basato su reattività, capacità di auto-riparazione di singole parti e tolleranza ai guasti, che da sempre consente agli organismi viventi di sopravvivere in contesti ostili. Questa attitudine dei sistemi biologici ad adottare risposte dinamiche alle azioni perturbative del loro equilibrio si rivela straordinariamente efficace e intrinsecamente efficiente, al punto da proporsi come un paradigma a cui ispirarsi per organizzare il funzionamento anche dei sistemi artificiali

Incertezza, fragilità, resilienza/Uncertainty, fragility, resilience / Antonini E.. - In: AGATHÓN. - ISSN 2464-9309. - STAMPA. - 6:(2019), pp. 6-13. [10.19229/2464-9309/612019]

Incertezza, fragilità, resilienza/Uncertainty, fragility, resilience

Antonini E.
2019

Abstract

The consequences of climate change and the recurrent shortage of vital resources produce an extreme and growing fragility of all systems, both biological and technical, subjected to continuous and increasingly less predictable disturbances. In this perspective, the strategy that pretends to maintain static equilibrium at any cost is ineffective. Therefore, we look with attention at the adaptive approach, based on reactivity, ability to self-repair individual parts and fault tolerance, which has always enabled living organisms to survive in hostile contexts. This attitude of biological systems to adopt dynamic responses to the perturbative actions of their balance proves to be extraordinarily effective and intrinsically efficient, to the point of proposing itself as a paradigm to be inspired to organize even artificial systems.
2019
Incertezza, fragilità, resilienza/Uncertainty, fragility, resilience / Antonini E.. - In: AGATHÓN. - ISSN 2464-9309. - STAMPA. - 6:(2019), pp. 6-13. [10.19229/2464-9309/612019]
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