Granted, but to me those seem like side effects. The virus has no intentionality in doing them. They're a consequence of replication. In contrast, I think a m

Granted, but to me those seem like side effects. The virus has no intentionality in doing them. They're a consequence of replication. In contrast, I think a much stronger case could be made for a chimpanzee, duck, mosquito, or even amoeba evaluating multiple options, choose one to the exclusion of others, and pursueing it.