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I was thinking about immunity generally, from a Shannon information theory perspective. It's impossible that the human body has an infinite ability to absorb im
by rhema 5y ago
I was thinking about immunity generally, from a Shannon information theory perspective. It's impossible that the human body has an infinite ability to absorb immunity, because otherwise we could store an infinite amount of information. Therefore, there must be some kind of forgetting that happens. Likewise, the body can only learn so much from repeated exposure.
Is anyone aware of any writing that explains immunity from an information theory perspective?
- kittiepryde 5y agohttps://www.cell.com/trends/cancer/fulltext/S2405-8033(20)30340-X https://www.cell.com/trends/cancer/fulltext/S2405-8033(20)30... Looks early on, inconclusive atm, but interesting ( this is specifically applied to cancer and not a viral infection )
- nootropicat 5y ago"Why must T cells be cross-reactive?" https://www.nature.com/articles/nri3279 https://www.nature.com/articles/nri3279
- nojokes 5y agoIt is a good perspective. I mean invoking Shannon part. There are definitely limitations to the antibody levels because otherwise we would just explode, right? But it makes sense to try to keep levels high in the event of pandemic. Our bodies unfortunately could not do it on their own so we have to beat them to do this.