Towards Cognitive Immunology : G.O.D. is Infinite

Abstract

The meeting in Immunosemiotics was a rare opportunity to take a fresh look into immunological problems. It was possible, for instance, to define them as cognitive problems -i.e.: problems involving the interpretation, computation and generation of knowledge. It is true that only in a few moments during the meeting this possibility was clearly brought forth; but a few important statements were made in this direction, and I will use this contribution to reinforce this view. This will be an effort of the so trancisco Varela has called “… the difficult-process of addressing foundational issues at an unreceptive time.”(1). And this will be so because we live in a tradition which, although usually invisible, influences our ways of delineating problems and our criteria of validation of hypotheses and results.