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8 Immunology and aids: growing explanations and developing instruments
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Ilana Löwy
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Introduction: dynamics all the way up 1
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part i Mathematics, physics, and engineering Elementary particles?
- 1 Mirror symmetry: persons, values, and objects 23
- Nonlinear dynamics and chaos 65
- 2 Chaos, disorder, and mixing: a new fin-de-siècle image of science? 67
- Forms of explanation in the catastrophe theory of René Thom: topology, morphogenesis, and structuralism 95
- Coping with complexity in technology 131
- 4 From Boeing to Berkeley: civil engineers, the cold war, and the origins of finite element analysis 133
- 5 Fuzzyfying the world: social practices of showing the properties of fuzzy logic 159
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part ii The organism, the self, and (artificial) life Self-Organization
- 6 Marrying the premodern to the postmodern: computers and organisms after World War II 181
- Immunology 199
- 7 Immunology and the enigma of selfhood 201
- 8 Immunology and aids: growing explanations and developing instruments 222
- Artificial Life 249
- 9 Artificial life support: some nodes in the Alife ribotype 251
- The word for world is computer: simulating second natures in artificial life 275
- 11 Constructing and explaining emergence in artificial life: on paradigms, ontodefinitions, and general knowledge in biology 301
- Afterword 327
- Contributors 333
- Index 337
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Introduction: dynamics all the way up 1
-
part i Mathematics, physics, and engineering Elementary particles?
- 1 Mirror symmetry: persons, values, and objects 23
- Nonlinear dynamics and chaos 65
- 2 Chaos, disorder, and mixing: a new fin-de-siècle image of science? 67
- Forms of explanation in the catastrophe theory of René Thom: topology, morphogenesis, and structuralism 95
- Coping with complexity in technology 131
- 4 From Boeing to Berkeley: civil engineers, the cold war, and the origins of finite element analysis 133
- 5 Fuzzyfying the world: social practices of showing the properties of fuzzy logic 159
-
part ii The organism, the self, and (artificial) life Self-Organization
- 6 Marrying the premodern to the postmodern: computers and organisms after World War II 181
- Immunology 199
- 7 Immunology and the enigma of selfhood 201
- 8 Immunology and aids: growing explanations and developing instruments 222
- Artificial Life 249
- 9 Artificial life support: some nodes in the Alife ribotype 251
- The word for world is computer: simulating second natures in artificial life 275
- 11 Constructing and explaining emergence in artificial life: on paradigms, ontodefinitions, and general knowledge in biology 301
- Afterword 327
- Contributors 333
- Index 337