Idea: Aging is a system‑level loss of resilience (critical slowing) — recovery from perturbations becomes slower and variance rises; tuning dynamics can lower hazard.
Not just parts: focus is on the whole‑system controller; measure/restore resilience rather than enumerating specific damages.
Classics: Tradeoffs/damage explain hazard; resilience focus is secondary.
Resilience: System dynamics predict hazard and intervention response beyond tradeoff framing; big hazard shifts without obvious costs challenge Classics.
Pathogen Control (Lidsky)
PC: Reducing pathogen burden is the main lever for hazard improvements.
Resilience: Hazard can be lowered by improving recovery dynamics without infection changes; similar/better gains vs anti‑pathogen plans favor this view.
PC further predicts lifespan differences that track population structure (dispersal, eusociality, cohorting), which resilience alone does not specify.
Epigenetic Information (Sinclair) and SENS Damage Repair (de Grey)
Sinclair/SENS: Reset/repair is primary; dynamics follow.
Resilience: Tuning dynamics shifts hazard broadly; state resets/repairs may not be required for large gains.