Emergent allostasis: Health understood as the ongoing capacity of a system to maintain regulatory coherence through predictive adjustment, not the absence of symptoms but the sustained ability to adapt
emergent allostasis—a dynamic state of sustainable regulation that ESF (Evolutionary Stress Framework) equates with health.
Allostasis: Stability achieved through continuous predictive adjustment to changing conditions rather than through fixed setpoints
The brain does not passively react to the world; it continuously anticipates metabolic needs and allocates resources accordingly. This is allostasis: stability achieved not through fixed setpoints but through constant predictive adjustment to changing conditions.