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It makes you question the way we call animals / humans 'complex' life when you see how insanely intricate what happens on such a tiny scale even in something as
by jonplackett 5y ago
It makes you question the way we call animals / humans 'complex' life when you see how insanely intricate what happens on such a tiny scale even in something as small as a virus.
- pjc50 5y agoWe are then "more complex": we contain multitudes, some of which (gut bacteria, mitochondria, gametes) look like entirely separate life forms of their own.
- jonplackett 5y agoI guess we're many, many orders of magnitude more complex. I just think it's wrong to call tiny 'simple' life, just because we are so insanely complex.
- zamadatix 5y agoGood luck finding anything that still seems "simple" when you really look towards understanding how it works rather than what it results in. Simple and complex always have to be relative to other things as nothing is absolutely "simple" e.g. even a single atom is an extraordinarily complicated environment which spans many textbooks and degrees worth of interactions and understandings. To say everything is just complex to more super duper extra complex is to just replace the sound of "simple" with the sound of "complex" yet have it mean the exact same thing and use it in the exact same way.
- whimsicalism 5y ago? Animals contain millions of similarly complex processes within them, that is what makes them 'complex' compared to a simple virus.