Fungi Lurk Inside Cancers–and Might Speed Their Growth

Re:Fungi Lurk Inside Cancers–and Might Speed Their Growth by jvanderbot on Saturday October 08, 2022 @04:05PM (#33135557)

Nobody in this thread has read Selfish Gene, apparently. That's the whole point of the book: That genes may as well have invented all of life to propagate themselves.

In this context, species conflict is like fleets of world-ships fighting total war.

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Re:Fungi Lurk Inside Cancers–and Might Speed Their Growth by ok_dad on Saturday October 08, 2022 @05:40PM (#33136261)

That’s an interesting SciFi idea: the real world is digital, and digital beings have created a physical world to fight battle via genetic biological machines, which are effectively concrete data structures.

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Re:Fungi Lurk Inside Cancers–and Might Speed Their Growth by redanddead on Saturday October 08, 2022 @06:30PM (#33136651)

like the scene in Jurassic park

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Re:Fungi Lurk Inside Cancers–and Might Speed Their Growth by markdown on Saturday October 08, 2022 @08:44PM (#33137381)

"It's a Unix system. I know this!"?

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Re:Fungi Lurk Inside Cancers–and Might Speed Their Growth by theGnuMe on Saturday October 08, 2022 @06:03PM (#33136450)

Genes are effectively biological computer programs.

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Re:Fungi Lurk Inside Cancers–and Might Speed Their Growth by sapiol on Saturday October 08, 2022 @11:52PM (#33138134)

Somehow akin to a fork-bomb

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Re:Fungi Lurk Inside Cancers–and Might Speed Their Growth by sapiol on Saturday October 08, 2022 @11:50PM (#33138124)

> That genes may as well have invented all of life to propagate themselves.

I think the point of the book was, that genes didn't invent anything. They were just the first self-replicating molecules. Everything else had to happen, because they were forced to exist and compete with clones and mutating clones of themselve – a game which we call life today.

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