A tumor is a part of an organism that has mutated to play a much shorter game than the organism itself. Humanity seems to be a tumor on the biosphere. The industrial revolution is that happy moment when the host was switched to mostly delivering nutrients to the tumor.
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Everything is a hypergraph
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That is not saying very much, of course, beyond hypergraphs being a universal data structure.
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Many of these parts are replaceable by other similar parts (often at some cost to diversity, but not necessarily). You can't easily replace your liver.
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There's the idea that humanity can bring total destruction to life on earth - that's your cancer analogy. I'm a bit wary of taking biology dogmas for granted, especially those which model evolution in the absence of technology.
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The mother board?
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