The idea that viruses aren’t alive is a misguided form of dualism. Every living thing depends on its environment to replicate, and hosts are just a part of the environment
Do viruses create new information like other life, and do they do it on the same complexity order
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Arguably the individual virus particle is the wrong level of organization to be looking at.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3126141/ …
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there is an argument to be made from a genetic perspective, viruses are the primary drivers of information gain by horizontal transfer
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