The Immune Self Code: From Correspondence to Complexity

Yair Neuman

doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-6340-4_11

The Immune Self Code: From Correspondence to Complexity

Yair Neuman

School of Education

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Abstract

Codes are conventions of correspondence between realms. These conventions may be considered emergent products of complex microlevel interactions. In this chapter, I illustrate the complexity of coding by discussing the immune self. I argue that our evolving understanding of the immune self bears a striking resemblance to the way our understanding of signs evolved. According to the thesis presented in this chapter, the immune system is a meaning-making system and therefore a biosemiotic analysis of the immune self may shed new light on a variety of unsolved theoretical questions in immunology.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Codes of Life: The Rules of Macroevolution
Editors	Marcello Barbieri, Jesper Hoffmeyer
Place of Publication	Dordrecht
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Pages	247-263
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4020-6340-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6340-4_11
State	Published - 2008

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