creators_name: Hershberg, Uri creators_name: Efroni, Sol type: journalp datestamp: 2002-06-16 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:56 metadata_visibility: show title: The immune system and other cognitive systems ispublished: pub subjects: bio-ani-cog subjects: bio-theory subjects: cog-psy subjects: dev-psy subjects: ling-learn subjects: ling-syntax subjects: percep-cog-psy subjects: phil-mind subjects: psy-ling full_text_status: public keywords: definitions of cognition, immunity, complex systems abstract: In the following pages we propose a theory on cognitive systems and the common strategies of perception, which are at the basis of their function. We demonstrate that these strategies are easily seen to be in place in known cognitive systems such as vision and language. 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