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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Much of religion and much of governance is intentionally designed, of course. But even if *all* of it were, it would still be an overall small part of the story when taking into account the biological and ecological (and undesigned aspects of social) systems they operate within.
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If we say that randomness is the mathematical function producing all possible combinations, then we get a normative curve, with some types of things being more common than other things. This looks similar to non-randomness/arbitrariness (more of x, less of y), but isn't.
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