Abstract
Meaning-making is the process by which a system responds to an indeterminate signal. This article focuses on meaning-making in living systems. It proposes several guidelines for studying the process of meaning-making in living systems in general, and in the immune system in particular. Drawing on a general framework for studying meaning-making in living systems, I suggest three basic organizing concepts for studying meaning-making - variability of the signal, context markers, and transgradience. Those concepts present a radical alternative to the information-processing approach that governs biological research and may shed new light on biological processes.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 317-327 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Perspectives in Biology and Medicine |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Jan 2004 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Issues, ethics and legal aspects
- Health Policy
- History and Philosophy of Science
