Physiological regulation, repair, development, behavioural adjustment, and acclimation all involve adaptive changes in the coordination of biological functions while preserving the viability-oriented organisation of the organism.
Adaptive Reorganisation therefore explains how organisational continuity is actively maintained through ongoing organisational change.
Why It Matters
Adaptive Reorganisation explains why biological stability and biological change are complementary rather than opposing characteristics of living systems.
The persistence of life depends not upon resisting change but upon continually reorganising functional activity in ways that preserve viability.
It therefore provides an organisational account of biological flexibility without abandoning continuity of identity.
What It Is Not
Adaptive Reorganisation is not simply adaptation in the evolutionary sense.
Nor is it merely the replacement of one mechanism by another.
It concerns the coordinated reorganisation of multiple interdependent functional relationships It concerns the coordinated reorganisation of multiple interdependent functional relationships through which living systems maintain Organised Persistence.
Relationship to Other APS Concepts
Through continual adaptive reorganisation, living systems achieve Operational Persistence despite changing internal and environmental conditions.
Through continual reorganisation, living systems achieve Operational Persistence despite changing internal and environmental conditions.