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Acute porphyrias are a group of rare genetic metabolic disorders, caused by a defect in one of the enzymes involved in the heme biosynthesis, which results in an abnormally high accumulation of toxic intermediates.Acute porphyrias are characterized by potentially life-threatening attacks and, for some patients, by chronic manifestations that negati
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The paper considers the relation of Shannon-type information to those semantic and hermeneutic aspects of communication, which are often referred to as meaning.It builds on considerations of Talcott Parsons, Niklas Luhmann and Robert K.Logan and relates them to an agent-based model that reproduces key aspects of the Talking Head experiment by Luc S