I find it endlessly fascinating that a virus has no motive, no agency, no goals. It's just a bunch of molecules that happen to form a sequence of instructions that a cell cannot help but to read. (And in a way, that is true for our own organism as well.)
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True, but those minds themselves are undesigned, as are the organisms as a whole, as are the ecosystems they operate in, as are many aspects of the social orders the more intelligent species form. Intent and planning is advantageous, but plays a small role overall.
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I don't buy this. Religions and most form of governance are technologies that have been carefully constructed, taught and improved over many generations. If you think they are random occurrences, it may be part of the plan...
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Maybe, viruses are special forms of life with a very special purpose. Higher structure and anything else you mentioned is not needed.
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Optimization and active-construction IS natural selection and random mutation.
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In case of common enterovirus, 38% of ppl have it in muscle & release it w/o capsid, meaning no cell damage. Virus can trigger explosive immune response: similar to acute starvation response: cell protections. It can infect others and could be still destructive to some if new. 1/
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Many ppl w/ chr ds including ME/CFS may release the virus when they feel ‘crash’. If someone in ancestral society is not conditioned for running for hrs for a hunting trip, going out w/ fatigued m but not knowing the low oxidative capacity can be dangerous/fatal. Having a mech 2/
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