A similarity between the CAP theorem and our heart (twitter.com/dvassallo)

This is the HN discussion about this lengthy piece on twitter.

The gist of it is that there are a number of pace-making structures in the heart and all of them act independently for maximum availability. If communication breaks down (akin to a network partition) between those structures, they err on the side of availability and trigger a heartbeat.

Ergo, the heart is AP, consistency is discarded for availability and partition tolerance.