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It was a wonderful chaser to https://xkcd.com/2287/ https://xkcd.com/2287/ , which I encountered minutes before. Humans are good.
by ISL 7y ago
It was a wonderful chaser to https://xkcd.com/2287/ https://xkcd.com/2287/ , which I encountered minutes before.
Humans are good.
- perl4ever 7y agoI suspect that cartoon implies a deep and chilling insight. COVID-19, or HIV, people notice. But does that mean we notice everything? The greatest vulnerability of pathogens is our brains, so wouldn't that mean strong evolutionary pressure to mess with our brains in such a way that we don't notice we're ill? How much of human social evolution is driven by that?
- mercer 7y agoSomething like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasma_gondii https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasma_gondii ?
- PetitPrince 7y agoI don't think the molecular tools available to wildlife are sophisticated enough to achieve what you are describing (i.e. messing with higher-ish cognitive functions). This would be like modifying our proprioception but ALSO the perception of others ?
- folli 7y agoI'm just worried that a T4 bacteriophage (a virus that infects bacteria) is talking about infecting humans...