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by hn_throawlles 1144 days ago
but when this happens in real life, it looks like mass shootings

i.e., I'm saying (due to how I think) that in the layer of the cells, like the biological cells that come together to form one human, a T cell activates itself to fight tumors (damaged tissues? organism mistakes?)...

is somehow comparable to a human person snaps, "goes postal", or things like this. (keep in mind that some places are truly deep within the 'cancer tissue'; and yea, this whole comment implies viewpoint that 'civilization is cancer' or something like that)

I've seen some movies that could be like this too, like "sleeper agent gets activated" trope, or other kinds of anamnesis-processes making people suddenly act far from the norms

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There is nothing in the behavior of cells that is reflective of human intelligence.

Cells are "amino acid robots."

They string the 26 programmed amino acids into exotic plastics/proteins to execute their programmed functions.

There is no relation to human behavior in cellular behavior.

At the end of an infection, most immune cells trigger "apoptosis" (controlled cellular "suicide").

At the end of a riot, police obviously do not do this.

You might find this Kurzgesagt introduction to immune system behavior interesting. There are several videos in this sequence, and Kurzgesagt ultimately published a book that is worth reading.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lXfEK8G8CUI

This short series is a bit more in depth...

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFtH1mhd9gD_064ndQ9Te...

I saw the first episode.

This skips around, and misses major aspects that are barely mentioned.

The compliment system has it's own video in the Kurzgesagt series, although it misses a major aspect in a "membrane attack complex" in the participation of an antibody.

This first entry in the series that you've posted focuses on the innate immune system, but barely mentions compliment, and doesn't mention C-3 or a membrane attack complex. Dendritic cells are also left out, but they may be in another episode.

I'll watch the rest of the series, but I think that Kurzgesagt has more focus.