Cognition, immunology and the cognitive paradigm

Cognition is the study of higher-level informationprocessing mechanisms not limited to the perception, transformation application and storage of knowledge. A relatively new paradigm of immunology takes a systems and cognitive perspective proposed as a replacement for the dogmatic clonal selection theory and the deficiencies of the self-nonself discrimination pattern. This work reviews the cognitive paradigm of immunity with an eye for exploiting such work in the design of computational intelligence algorithms.