title: A walk with Francisco Varela from first- to second-generation networks: in search of the structure, dynamics and metadynamics of an organism-centered immune system.
authors.affiliation: Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal.
authors.forename: António
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Coutinho
mesh_terms: D000486:Allergy and Immunology / Q000266:history*; D002677:Chile; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D007107:Immune System / Q000502:physiology*; D018448:Models, Immunological