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The reason for discussing semiotics at this meeting of immunologists is the fact of being faced with a strange situation Immunologists are forced to use unusual expressions in order to describe their observations. Expressions like “memory”, “recognition”, “interpretation”, “individuality”, “reading”, “inner picture”, “self”, “nonself”, “iso-, idio-, allotype” or “killing” — to list only some of them — are unknown in physics and chemistry. Atoms and molecules have no self, memory, individuality, or inner pictures. They are not able to read, to recognise or to interpret anything and cannot be killed either.
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von Uexküll, T. (1988). Possible contribution of biosemiotics to the problem of communication among lymphocyts. In: Sercarz, E.E., Celada, F., Mitchison, N.A., Tada, T. (eds) The Semiotics of Cellular Communication in the Immune System. NATO ASI Series, vol 23. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73145-7_3
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