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Smug Viruses (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's a hostile instruction manual which learns, adapting itself to its surroundings, constantly re-writing and re-inventing how it interacts with the world. Which is more than can be said about most politicians. Forget about physical anatomy, for a second, and consider the species as an organism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not, and i am not going to keep arguing in circles with people who want to contradict basic and agreed upon biology.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I'm not contradicting anything, I didn't even use the word "life". I'm simply taking the perspective of the genome, and fighting against the notion that viruses would act as mechanistically as prions.