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The essence of anything in philosophy is interpreted as the principle of structure. Thus, the essence or the essential, the main reason for aging can be expressed only in the language of high-level abstraction as an objective pattern of life, General Being, as a principle, but not at all as a process, much less as a specific special mechanism in the body. Such an essential definition of a global phenomenon, Aging has been known since antiquity – as a reduction in vitality with age. The current general definition of aging as a reduction in overall vitality with age actually does not differ from this in any way.

This definition is necessary and sufficient for a quantitative description of aging and clarification of the causes and main mechanisms of the aging process of organisms and its systems.

In its most general form, viability is the maintenance of structure and function – that is, the preservation of the identity (information) of a complex system (organism) over time.

The spontaneous direction of information change with time is closely connected in the global sense with the most general law of Being – the law of increasing entropy. Entropy and information are related, as is well known, by the following formula (1):

E = A * LnW + B, (1)

where E is entropy, W is the probability of an event, A and B are coefficients.

That is, the “natural” probability of the direction of (bio) chemical (and any!) events in time leads to the achievement of chaos as the most probable event (no longer changing), which is known as the 2-nd law of thermodynamics. The mechanism of such a path (the global mechanism of entropy) is a random process.

It is known that resist chaos can only be an external flow of energy. This flow of energy is a metabolism that forms the very basis of life as a biological form of existence of matter.