Chapter 16 Context and Memory: A Lesson from Funes the Memorious

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Abstract

It is common to think about the adaptive immune system as having a memory. However, memory is always accompanied by the complementary process of oblivion. Is there immune oblivion? In this chapter, I address this question from a meaning-making perspective and suggest that memorization and oblivion are two necessary and complementary processes for meaning making and for attuning us for the context of the here and now. I inquire the implications on this idea for understanding immune memory and immune deficiency among the elderly. This case will help us to better understand the meaning of context.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationReviving the Living
Subtitle of host publicationMeaning Making in Living Systems
EditorsLaura McNamara, Mary Meyer, Ray Patondagger, Yair Neuman
Pages229-238
Number of pages10
DOIs
StatePublished - 25 Mar 2008

Publication series

NameStudies in Multidisciplinarity
Volume6
ISSN (Print)1571-0831

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Engineering
  • General

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