# INDEPENDENCE FROM GROWTH **A systems function must be independent of quantitative growth.**
Systems' function must be independent of quantitative growth.
The settling down of a system to a **stable equilibrium is not compatible with continuous growth**.
This is why in the biological process it is **either growth (unstable, temporary) or function (stable, permanent)** that is optimal, but hardly ever both.
The cells of the human brain as an example: their growth is terminated a few months after birth so that the brain can start functioning.
Hence systems ought to be examined as to whether they are oriented primarily toward functioning rather that toward growth.
🔴 **Of course it is not growth as such but dependence on growth which is dangerous for a system, as shown by the breakdowns of enterprises or entire national economies.**
**Precondition:** Diversity, Knowledge of Threshold Values.