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I was thinking that Prions remind me of biological Ice-nine and sure enough there's a mention of it in the wikipedia article for Ice-nine: Ice-nine has been us
by po 11y ago
I was thinking that Prions remind me of biological Ice-nine and sure enough there's a mention of it in the wikipedia article for Ice-nine:
Ice-nine has been used as a model to explain the infective mechanism of mis-folded proteins called prions which are thought to catalyze the mis-folding of the corresponding normal protein leading to a variety of spongiform encephalopathies such as kuru, scrapie and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice-nine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice-nine
- FoeNyx 11y agoPrions remind me of the apocalyptic theory about strangelets and strange matter : "One speculation that has resulted from the idea is that a strangelet coming into contact with a lump of ordinary matter could convert the ordinary matter to strange matter." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangelet#Dangers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangelet#Dangers Also mere ideas could also been seen as some mind-folding catalysts, language being the infective mechanism. Variants of this trope often appear in literature (science-fiction or not). For example in "Viruses of the Mind" : "Richard Dawkins analyzes the propagation of religious ideas and behaviors as a memetic virus" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viruses_of_the_Mind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viruses_of_the_Mind