First off, Happy Easter to everyone who celebrates today! May your celebration be joyful and loving.
And now, here is a phenomenally interesting interview with J.J. Couey, a neuroscientist (formerly at University of Pittsburgh), a gifted educator, and the founder of Gigaohm.
Here’s how J.J. very elegantly resolves the “virus - no virus” argument by bringing back the complexity and the nuance
This is rather beautiful. The interview goes into detail—but here is a recap, in my own words:
Yes, there is such thing as little bits of genetic code that make cells express different things
Yes, those little bits of genetic code can try to program the cell to make copies of themselves
It so happens that modern science calls those things “viruses” while at the same time vastly misrepresenting the actual findings, and greatly downplaying the fact that we don’t know a whole lot
Naturally occurring “viruses” (in quotes, as this word is just a name for a model) aren’t very good at replication, i.e. pro…
