The setpoint state that defines homeostatic stress is better understood as an emergent goal-construct rather than a concrete equilibrium state.

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• Stress, as a systemic response to distance from setpoint states, serves as the glue of agency, binding subunits into higher Selves.claim0.797
  Stress propagation through gap junctions recruits distant cells to act cooperatively.
• Homeostatic Setpointconcept0.794
  Large-scale organizational target that organisms maintain despite changes to parts; enables flexible achievement through multiple molecular mechanisms.
• Goals and stressors are key invariants unifying morphogenesis, behavior, and physiological allostasis.hypothesis0.793
• "stress is a physiological parameter that reflects the current amount of error in the context of a homeostatic loop"concept0.776
• What Is The Source Of Setpoints And Homeodynamicquestion0.776
• A system’s capacity for care—its concern for the alleviation of homeostatic stress—can be seen as constituting its self in the absence of any permanent substance or essence.claim0.774
  Re-defines self in terms of care dynamics.
• Goals and stressors are key invariants unifying cognitive systems across diverse embodiments.claim0.772
  Levin's assertion that goal-directed activity is the unifying principle across morphogenesis, behavior, and physiological allostasis.
• Anatomical goal states could not be inferred from observation of stress states, revealing limits of external observer knowledgefinding0.771