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Why We Fall Apart

Posted by timothy on from the ask-chinua dept.

DM_NeoFLeX writes "An article in the September 2004 IEEE spectrum raises some interesting ideas comparing aging in organic organisms to aging in Electronic/Electrical systems. From the article: "The [reliability theory] is so general it can be applied to understanding aging in living organisms...In the ways that we age and die, we are not so different from the machines we build.""

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  1. The general idea is... by Cyclone66 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    that human aging can be modeled according to reliability theory that applies for machinery. The difference is, while machines start off 'perfect' (You don't buy a multi cpu system with 2 cpus dead on arrival) the human body 'ships' as a redundant system with many failures already in place.