Ø Applications · Chapter Five · the plain edition

Medicine and the Viability Corridor

Medicine is what the larger structure around a body does, at the lowest level that works, to keep that body’s corridor open.

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This is the plain edition, written for the screen. The book of record is Ø Applications, Chapter 5, unchanged, on the420code.org.

The sections

1. Section 1A body with painEvery reader has been here.
2. Section 2You are already insideYou cannot step outside the question. You are asking it with a body.
3. Section 3Where the question came fromFirst, do no harm. Help has a cost.
4. Section 4Four partial readingsFour common readings of medicine. Each gets something right. Each falls short.
5. Section 5What the question is really askingAt what level should the larger structure step in, and what is the least that works?
6. Section 6The five levelsLowest first. Each level is used only where the levels below it are not enough, or not fast enough.
7. Section 7The five levels at workThree prescriptions, or a question about sleep. One patient. Two medicines.
8. Section 8Maintenance is not blameSleep, food, movement and safety are not lifestyle choices. They are corridor conditions.
9. Section 9Prevention is a factHelp that comes too late is paid for twice.
10. Section 10Scarcity and the floorAbove the floor, read what the help can restore. Below the floor, no one is pushed.
11. Section 11Where the reach endsFive questions this chapter names and hands on.
12. Section 12Where it would dieFive claims carry this chapter. Each one can fail.
13. Section 13ClosingThe most expensive medicine, and the most efficient.

The kill switches

APP-5.1Exhibit a medical case where level three is structurally preferred to level one despite level one being available.

APP-5.2Show that coupling-capacity projection cannot be computed without age or ability bias.

APP-5.3Demonstrate that the dignity floor is not specifiable in structural terms.

APP-5.4Produce a major disease class the hierarchy cannot handle.

APP-5.5Show that the prevention-first commitment is contradicted by empirical data.

Source. Ø Applications, Chapter 5 — Medicine and the Viability Corridor. The book in full: the420code.org/Applications.pdf. The short edition: the420code.org/models/applications/05-medicine-and-the-viability-corridor/. The film, Level one was never attempted: the420code.org/films/applications/. Its kill switches: APP-5.1 to APP-5.5.