Your Alt-Reality Is Boring......A plea for more interesting alt-realities than the Moon Landing Hoax, Flat Earth, and No Virus.
(barsoom.substack.com)
** THERE WILL BE A QUIZ **
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All of it, but that's more because it was interesting following the author's thinking. However, this particular paragraph is rather intriguing:
Reframing viruses as commensal genetic update vectors offering access to a vast and crucially important genetic repertoire would necessitate a change in how we saw our relationship, not just to viruses, but to the entire biosphere. Rather than something to insulate ourselves from, as something separate and other, it would lead naturally to an understanding of ourselves as an intrinsic, inextricable element of the biosphere. Our very genomes, which we’ve been accustomed to seeing as fixed from birth, become permeable, open to modification, fluidly connected to a genetic ocean. Evolution becomes not the outcome of a bloody war of attrition, but a collective adventure: evolutionary phase changes are something in which, in principle, an entire species can – and in general does – take part in together.
Well on a whole other level he's right, but that level has nothing to do with "viruses".
This is indeed the way the universe works. What he's talking about are microzymas/somatids which are the building blocks of "life". These are effectively "stem cells" in which all life arises from, including bacteria which arise from the microzyma/somatid in their many forms and shapes (17 to be exact... Q-incidence?).
And when spirit withdraws from the matter (body), it all decomposes back into these indestructible units of life which await their next opportunity to be infused with spirit to generate a new life form.
Thus, it is the microzyma/somatid which is the "essence of life", not the "cell". "Cells" are actually multiple cooperating microzyma/somatids, far from being the 'basic unit of life".
Thanks!
Thanks for the clarification!
Anytime. I'm here to help and wish I could help more. Your willingness to listen and open mind always make my day! :)
Look for my comments in this thread on my take on both FE and unicorns for more...
Read them. Though I didn't say so in my original comment, there are a lot of things in article that I found disturbing, not the least of which was the author's superior attitude (often a narcissist's give-away). You articulated my issues much better than I would have.
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Give me something to read please. I'm fascinated and this finally adds up to me.