Eli5-If a virus isn’t technically alive, I would assume it doesn’t have instinct. Where does it get its instructions/drive to know to infect host cells and multiply?
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in some way you can say a virus gets it’s ‘instinct’ from the cells it infects, a virus without a cell is as inanimate as a rock, but if you put said virus inside a cell it becomes as active or inactive as it’s host cell, like turning the power on for a computer, and regarding where it gets it’s instructions, because we only see viruses that managed to survive, as far as we can determine, it’s just random chance that certain random sequences of DNA/RNA can replicate and become viruses and cause the flu
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