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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Replying to @Plinz
The most extraordinary orders in both the natural and human worlds are unplanned, lack any overarching intention or design
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Replying to @Evollaqi
I am not sure. As soon as you go above random mutation and selection, you will find that evolution is driven by deliberate optimization and active construction. That's why many organisms have minds: they don't go about their life in an unplanned way, but model and control.
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Replying to @Plinz
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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Replying to @Evollaqi
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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Replying to @Plinz
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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Surely the emergence of design from non-design is one of the most exciting parts of the story!
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