Do viruses create new information like other life, and do they do it on the same complexity order
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
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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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extends even further when you consider sexual and immunological recombination, both of which are driven by parasite coevolution (partly viral)
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And adaptive immunity itself is made possible by a tamed retroviral transposable element that does the recombination necessary to produce different antibodies
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Transposable elements are the non-state actors of biologyhttps://twitter.com/literalbanana/status/1072673076918272001?s=21 …
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This implies that technology is alive and the modern industrial infrastructure including human labour is its support matrix. I unironically believe this.
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strong same and this is very close to what I mean when I call myself "Moloch's Janitor"
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u been reading that information theory of individuality brah
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