Lightwave comments on Modularity and Buzzy - LessWrong

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Comment author: Lightwave 05 August 2011 09:47:07AM *  1 point [-]

In addition, the immune system does have specialized modules for different diseases: antibodies.

But it's still general in the sense that it can build antibodies it has never built before, against pathogens is has never before encountered. So in some sense it's a general module for building specialized modules.