Definition
The transfer of consequences produced across food, labour, social, and biological systems into the subject's body, responsibility, and treatment burden.
HAKKI TAN · REALITY PARADIGM · HT–10
Metabolic Cost Transfer
The transfer of consequences produced across food, labour, social, and biological systems into the subject's body, responsibility, and treatment burden.
“Systems may distribute the condition while the subject carries the bill.”
CANONICAL DEFINITIONHT–10
What is Metabolic Cost Transfer?
Within Hakkı Tan's Reality Paradigm research programme, Metabolic Cost Transfer names the transfer of consequences produced across food, labour, social, and biological systems into the subject's body, responsibility, and treatment burden.
Analytical question
How are systemically distributed causes translated into personal behaviour, bodily failure, and an individually financed or endured solution?
Conceptual boundary
Cost transfer does not mean that the individual contributes nothing to an outcome. It rejects the unequal allocation in which constitutive power disappears and responsibility is assigned only at the final, visible point.
Place in the research programme
The concept completes the Metabolic Ambush sequence from constructed conditions to action, phenotype, judgement, and treatment.
RELATED TERMS AND FORMS
Metabolic Cost TransferMetabolik Maliyet TransferiTransfer of metabolic costsMetabolik maliyetin özneye aktarılması
SUGGESTED CITATION
Tan, Hakkı. “Metabolic Cost Transfer.” Hakkitan.org — Hakkı Tan Research Archive, 2026. https://hakkitan.org/concepts/metabolic-cost-transferhttps://hakkitan.org/concepts/metabolic-cost-transfer