Symbiosis and Complex Homeostasis

http://www.winwenger.com/homstas.htm

In this article, Dr. Win Wenger describes the importance of balance in nature in complex homeostasis. He contends that once you understand basic systems behavior, you come to understand so much else about the natural world around you. Here he describes systems as being complexly homeostatic: that is, they are systems maintaining multiple equilibria at multiple levels. This is a concept seen in symbioses.

He emphasizes the importance of complex homeostasis for critical consideration in the field of medicine, describes direct applications for it, and details how important systems education is early on in its understanding. This is also a call of the wild for scientists working in a variety of areas to consider how complexly homeostatic their own problem is. I contend that Symbiology is worthy of this consideration under the merits I've previously described, in addition to justifications yet to come. This is merely a budding field after all.

If one assumes that symbioses always involve a sharing of at least one resource (food or space in time), then the host and its guest must make coordinated accomodations of balance in order to maintain a close association with each other. Otherwise, one has competed only to be competed against later, as seen in the Prisoners Dilemma. Under this simple homeostatic model, an equilibrium is reached as we've seen. "Tit-for-tat" is operating in symbioses, from parasites to mutualisms.

In real life, symbioses are complexly homeostatic. For simplicities sake, I will assume them to be simple homeostatic, unless specifying otherwise in the case of examples. Here I am dealing with symbiology and thus, organisms living closely together and assuming to share at least one resource, making the math models easier to understand.

Other Dr. Win Wenger works are here...
http://www.winwenger.com/winwin.htm Win-Win/ Incentive Equilibrium Analysis
http://www.winwenger.com/string.htm In String Theory
http://www.winwenger.com/ideagen.htm Idea Generator