Wisdom Lessons Based on the “Cytokine-Storm” Metaphor

Wisdom Lessons Based on the “Cytokine-Storm” Metaphor

Fernand Jozef VANDAMME

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…

2020

cytokine storm, Metaphor, canon, expert, de-cognition, de-communication

10.24234/wisdom.v15i2.353

Biotemas

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Philosophy. Psychology. Religion