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Survival and maintenance in living organisms, from invertebrates to mammals, are assured by a variety of evolutionary conserved mechanisms. From this point of view, a critical role is played by cognitive systems, capable of acquiring and elaborating information from the environment (external world), as well as from the internal milieu (internal world).
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Franceschi, C. (2003). The Immune System as a Cognitive System: New Perspectives for Information Technology Society. In: Timmis, J., Bentley, P.J., Hart, E. (eds) Artificial Immune Systems. ICARIS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2787. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45192-1_28
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