[interstice]

This triggered two main thoughts for me. First - this virus centric take is not so different to the one taken in Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari in which he claims that we didn’t so much domesticate crops as become domesticated _by_ crops. While I think it’s healthy to consider less human centric views of what we are, there as here I think the value of questioning the intent of entities that don’t have end goals may not lead to very profound answers. The second thought is that I once read that the activity of our brain is dancing on the edge of chaos, and that either direction causes it to cease functioning. Similarly our immune systems are dialled close to the limit, to the point where it can take itself and its owner out by accident. All this to say our existence is already at or near the crossover between so many gradients, which most likely are in essence the pitched battles you’re referring to.

[d4rkn0d3z]

Its a view of life as unstable equilibria.