Re:How the placenta evolved from an ancient virus (2020)
by ta8645 on Sunday January 21, 2024 @12:04AM
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> No, you’re assuming a counterfactual.
I'm not assuming anything. I'm following the science as reported in the article above. That in FACT a virus lead to an important part of human development. And was in FACT beneficial. Those are true facts, if you trust the science.
> If the virus hadn’t come along, humanity as it stands today may not exist but whatever animal was infected could potentially have kept reproducing / another virus would accomplish what happened anyway. Those are far more likely scenarios.
You literally immediately launched into assuming a counterfactual (that didn't happen, you just made it up).
> You’re taking an impossible to prove hypothetical that would require omniscient level reasoning
Yes, and I made it clear that's what I was doing. And I explicitly said it was
an imaginary situation that would never happen. I was using it for
illustrative purposes for people who are flexible enough in their thinking.
I'm sorry that isn't you.
I'm not assuming anything. I'm following the science as reported in the article above. That in FACT a virus lead to an important part of human development. And was in FACT beneficial. Those are true facts, if you trust the science.
> If the virus hadn’t come along, humanity as it stands today may not exist but whatever animal was infected could potentially have kept reproducing / another virus would accomplish what happened anyway. Those are far more likely scenarios.
You literally immediately launched into assuming a counterfactual (that didn't happen, you just made it up).
> You’re taking an impossible to prove hypothetical that would require omniscient level reasoning
Yes, and I made it clear that's what I was doing. And I explicitly said it was an imaginary situation that would never happen. I was using it for illustrative purposes for people who are flexible enough in their thinking. I'm sorry that isn't you.