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Mike Donio's avatar

Thank you so much for reposting this. I humbled and honored that you'd value my work enough to share it with your audience. Can't tell you how much I appreciate it. God bless you!

Note: If anyone has any questions or would like me to expand further on anything please let me know here or in the comments of the original post. Thank you!

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ClearMiddle's avatar

Having watch a large portion of the first video, I am OK with your approach and what you are saying. My field is computer science, but I have nevertheless have had an interest in viruses for a very long time, and there is a certain overlap when base pairs are viewed as base 4 digits. This relationship has been used to create software that can give a sense of knowing a lot about genetics. How sound that knowledge is is a separate matter. It can be possible to find what you are looking for simply by looking, whether it is there or not.

My basic question about viruses, for longer than I can remember, has been "what are the design purposes of viruses?" What are they for? I haven't always been a believer, but I have always recognized design when I see it. I can't imagine that viruses are designed to make living things sick. That makes no sense. But I haven't come across any significant body of research aiming to understand what they are for, other than for studying them to understand how to make money off of them in one way or another, and especially from treating the symptoms of disease without necessarily ever addressing the causes.

I did come across one book, years ago (I don't have the title at hand) that did explore this question, although not in great depth. And so my question remains.

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