Wisdom Lessons Based on the “Cytokine-Storm” Metaphor

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Fernand Jozef VANDAMME Babbage Institute for Knowledge and Information Technology

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https://doi.org/10.24234/wisdom.v15i2.353

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Canon, cytokine-storm, de-cognition, de-communication, expert, metaphor, postmodernism, Protagoras, wisdom

Abstract

The basic process of covid-19, and especially the kernel of its deadly impact: the cytokine storm, is discussed. A destructive positive feedback is started by messenger cells that become and act blindly for their impact. They become “de-cognitive” and “de-communicative”. Such process of deterioration of messengers is a relevant metaphor to understand and approach some relevant aspects of wisdom in social systems, in economic systems, in political systems…

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Fernand Jozef VANDAMME, Babbage Institute for Knowledge and Information Technology

Studied at the University of Gent (Belgium), the University of Harvard (USA), MIT (USA), University of St. Petersburg, University of Moscow.
He does research, publishes and teaches in the domains of Epistemology, History of Sciences and Philosophy, Knowledge Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Document Management.
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Babbage Institute for Knowledge and Information Technology

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2020-08-25

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VANDAMME, F. J. (2020). Wisdom Lessons Based on the “Cytokine-Storm” Metaphor. WISDOM, 15(2), 129–138. https://doi.org/10.24234/wisdom.v15i2.353

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