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Meaning-making in the immune system.

Yair Neuman1

  • 1Office for Interdisciplinary Research, Department of Education, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. yneuman@bgumail.bgu.ac.il

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
|July 13, 2004
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Living systems create meaning by responding to unclear signals. This study introduces new concepts like signal variability and context markers to understand meaning-making, offering an alternative to traditional information-processing models in biology.

Area of Science:

  • Biology
  • Systems Biology
  • Immunology

Background:

  • Meaning-making is defined as a system's response to indeterminate signals.
  • The study focuses on meaning-making within living systems, with a specific emphasis on the immune system.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose guidelines for studying meaning-making in living systems.
  • To introduce a novel framework for understanding biological meaning-making processes.
  • To offer an alternative perspective to the dominant information-processing approach in biological research.

Main Methods:

  • Drawing on a general framework for studying meaning-making.
  • Identifying and defining three core organizing concepts: variability of the signal, context markers, and transgradience.

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Main Results:

  • The proposed concepts offer a new perspective on how living systems interpret and respond to signals.
  • These concepts challenge the conventional information-processing paradigm in biological research.

Conclusions:

  • The concepts of signal variability, context markers, and transgradience provide a potentially transformative approach to studying meaning-making in biology.
  • This framework may offer new insights into the functioning of living systems, particularly the immune system.