Hi everyone,
I’m not very knowledgeable about science, so I’m struggling to understand the notion that viruses aren’t “alive”, and the robot analogies people use. I understand that they don’t have some of the characteristics (cells, ability to reproduce), but my mind can’t wrap itself around the notion that they’re like objects. Can you please give some examples that could explain this in a way that is accessible to someone who isn’t very advanced in the subject?
Thanks
EDIT: wow thanks so much guys for so many amazing replies!!!
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it is a self-replicating organic machine. It contains a code of more copies of itself. Because it isn’t alive it cannot make those copies, so it injects the code (or recipe?) for itself into living things. Those recipes are made by the cells with produces more of the organic machines. Sometimes those machines also produce or contain toxins.
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