Why even these tiniest living things have that Will to keep on existing? — dimosthenis9
It's as if the virus has a(n) (invisible) brain that's strategizing, thinking about what's its next best move. — Agent Smith
It's as if the virus has a(n) (invisible) brain that's strategizing, thinking about what's its next best move.
— Agent Smith
That's more or less the core of my question. — dimosthenis9
Will is persuant to an individual: evolution is not. — Kenosha Kid
Just like a computer can win a chess game — Olivier5
Like a primal mechanism of making the virus "decide" to go on existing. To include the information as "to know what to do" as to keep existing. If that makes more sense. — dimosthenis9
The appearance of will and purpose and design in evolution is the same. It's a foot in the door to understanding the mechanics through metaphor, especially in large state spaces and complex environments that are otherwise difficult to grasp. But at heart it's just dumb numbers doing dumb things according to statistics and feedback mechanisms — Kenosha Kid
So in general, if I got it right, your point is that as everything, viruses variants are just an automatical mechanical procedure and includes no transmission of any kind of information as to go on existing?Right? — dimosthenis9
So these strains were there from the very beginning? Since "virus birth"?? And just some of them die and others survive? Haven't these strains developed afterwards as an effort from the virus to survive? — dimosthenis9
Covid variations are nothing more than a desperate effort of the virus to survive. — dimosthenis9
So let's not talk about complex creatures like humans and animals. Let's talk about the tiniest forms of life(bacteria, virus. etc) and here are the questions — dimosthenis9
This may very well be the best discussion ever proposed in the history of reality.
It will probably be deleted soon. — Outlander
So how can we not talk about all understandings of what life and energy is. Just because you can't detect the thoughts or understand or decode them doesn't mean they don't exist. — Outlander
Variations in the virus strains develop as the result of random genetic mutations which take place on a continuous basis. Some mutations have no significant effect, some have negative consequences for the organism, and some have a positive effect. — T Clark
But if you see it in large scale and not individually, the purpose of the variations of let's say the general "population of Covid viruses" (same with humankind genes) seems to be to keep staying alive. The purpose of this evolution procedure is to keep existing. Keep living. Seems to me like a "force" pushing towards there. — dimosthenis9
But computers only do as we tell them, which is will!": M — Kenosha Kid
Evolution has no drive, direction, purpose, or force. — T Clark
DNA is always trying to end its miserable existence, and eventually, almost all strains and strands achieve this. — unenlightened
That's true indeed?DNA tries to "kill itself"? — dimosthenis9
It's as if the virus has a(n) (invisible) brain that's strategizing, thinking about what's its next best move.
— Agent Smith
That's more or less the core of my question. Seems really weird to me indeed. Though it might be a biological scientific issue that I m not aware of — dimosthenis9
That's true indeed? — dimosthenis9
it does exactly nothing. It just sits there until it falls apart — unenlightened
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