A: What is the difference between allostasis and homeostasis?
interessting question. Like you cant decribe "life"/"bio(s)" with biology, biology is not a rich enaugh language for this problem.
I want to challenge your definition: Homeostasis and Allostasis are both kybernetic mechanism (and not states) to bring the system into a certain nessesary state in which it maintains its functionality and integrity as a non-equilibrium, dissipative system. But homeostasis (even if we are teached so) is no state, nor is allostasis.
Stability, robustnes, convexity, resillience, autopoesis are concepts thighly relatet to it. Or heterostasis as multi-stable behavior for distinct states (which cells dont have). But in the end we have a big incosistency problem in biology.
Onthology, Epistemology, Teleology (not theology), Cybernetics, Systemstheory, Complexitytheory, Informationtheory are all Branches of Science addressing this problem intensivly since the early beginning of the last century. Erwin Schroedingers Book "What is Life -The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell" is a paradebeispiel :D
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I appreciate your attempt to answer the question @launch3d.
I do take to mind your correction as these terms not being a state. It is might not be a state but it surely is not a cybernertic mechanism. The opperations are similar but cybernertics is restricted to technological regulatory systems such as the thermostate.
I would as well appreciate If you elaborate on the differences between the two rather than their similarity.
Thank you!