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Immune System Modelling and Simulation
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Immune System Modelling and Simulation

by Filippo Castiglione, Franco Celada
April 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
286 pages
7h 23m
English
CRC Press
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inform it, as a cognitive system. Here is the excerpt from the
introduction of the paper [23], in the hope that its declarations
may be somehow useful to the aliens of today:
An interesting view of the immune system has developed,
over several decades, from that of a rather mechanistic
response-to-stimulus machine to that of a cognitive system
capable, not only of building a specifi c response, but of
making the decision whether to enact it or not. It achieves
this by using information independent of the stimulus
per se, and following a behavioural code evolved during
phylogenesis and engineered in ontogenesis. From what
results from the accumulated fi ndings, the connections
among lymphoid cells look more similar to those among
neurons, and ...
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