?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Immune+Cognition+and+Pathogenic+Challenge%3A+Sudden+and+Chronic+Infection&rft.creator=Wallace%2C+Rodrick&rft.subject=Theoretical+Biology&rft.description=We+continue+to+study+the+implications+of+IR+Cohen's+theory%0Aof+immune+cognition%2C+in+the+presence+of+both+sudden+and+chronic+pathogenic+challenge%2C+through+a+mathematical+model+derived+from+the+Large+Deviations+Program+of+applied+probability.++The+analysis+makes+explicit+the+linkage+between+an+individual's+'immunocultural+condensation'+and+embedding+social+or+historical+structures+and+processes%2C+in+particular+power+relations+between+groups.++We+use+methods+adapted+from+the+theory+of+ecosystem+resilience+to+explore+the+consequences+of+the+sudden+'perturbation'+caused+by+infection+in+the+context+of+such+embedding%2C+and+examine+a+'stage'+model+for+chronic+infection+involving+multiple+phase+transitions+analogous+to+'learning+plateaus'+in+neural+networks+or+'punctuated+equilibria'+in+adaptive+systems.&rft.date=2002&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F2008%2F3%2Fvaccog6.pdf&rft.identifier=++Wallace%2C+Rodrick++(2002)+Immune+Cognition+and+Pathogenic+Challenge%3A+Sudden+and+Chronic+Infection.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F2008%2F