Instead, the challenge in natural environments is allostasis: discovering behaviors that enable agents to maintain an equilibrium (homeostasis), for example to preserve their bodies, their homes, and avoid predators and hunger. (github.io)
The release of β-E following exposure to an inescapable aversive situation may mediate behaviors that contribute to allostasis of the stress response. (blogspot.com)
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It posits that cognitive processes primarily are means to maintain allostasis in organisms whose ecological niches require movement to approach food-resources and avoid predation. (lu.se)