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This series considers the difference or not between 'gene' and 'genie' (On The Origin of Genieology, 2, 3).
One can wonder about why those who, in one particular profession, historically have not been sufficiently concerned about the meanings of words:
"Since at least the 17th century (and mostly because of Newton), natural scientists have stopped using formal or final causes to explain natural phenomena ... except in biology. This was first pointed out by Colin Pittendrigh (Pittendrigh, C. S. Behavior and Evolution) (ed. by A. Rose and G. G. Simpson), Yale University Press, 1958), who coined the term "teleonomy" to refer to the kind of teleological phenomena observed in biological processes."
(On The Origin of the Genes of Viruses - 17). One word which indicates that this unprofessional practice continues is the word 'microbe' (What Counts As A Microbe?).
Viruses are so different from their single celled host microbes, for example, from not being alive to not being able to reproduce themselves.
Viruses are machines composed of a few genes which are composed of molecules: adenine (A), uracil (U), cytosine (C), and guanine (G), which are composed of a few atoms: carbon (C), hydrogen (H), nitrogen (N), and oxygen (O).
The "magic word" professionals play pretend, like little girls with their dolls, that the viruses change themselves after coming across a cell, picking its door locks, then going inside that (vastly greater in size and complexity) microbe entity, then takes over the microbe's government, and makes a 'me' factory to replicate its self:
"Whether or not viruses have brains capable of doing what most humans cannot do is also up for cognitive grabs:
"Will virologists try to explain the haphazard genetic changes in those appendices with 'magic words' or will they consider that the microbes hosting these viruses around the world are being damaged and destroyed with antibiotic chemicals?
(The Epigenetics of Viruses). The teleological and/or teleonomical and/or orthogenetic approaches are not an improvement.
Attributing intelligence to a virus that "on their own they can do nothing" (ibid) is beyond absurd (see video below for one viruses experience)."
(Some Of My Best Friends Are Germs). I have compiled some HTML tables in today's appendices which detail changes in quantities of molecules in viruses.
Today's appendices show that changes take place in SARS-CoV-2 virus genomes, but why is up for grabs.
Why these changes take place, I hypothesize, is because the viruses are malformed when their host microbe is damaged or destroyed by toxic chemicals like antibodies.
Take a look at the appendices and decide for yourself whether virus logic is involved in the changes or whether they do not, like pieces in a 50 car pileup, make constructive sense.
Here are the links to the appendices: AB, C, DF, G, H, I-1, I-2, JP, QS, TZ (the sizes of the HTML tables affected the exactness of the alphabetical arrangement of the Country names).
More HTML tables to come in future posts (It's In The GenBank).
The next post in this series is here, the previous post in this series is here.
A microbe spills itself into its host upon being killed: