Answer to Question #137325 in Molecular Physics | Thermodynamics for hilma

Question

what argument would you use in favour of, or against, viruses forming seventh kingdom?

Answer 1

One of the species on earth – homo sapiens – makes a lot of stuff. Like termite mounds or colony bird nests, this stuff appears to be an extension of animal bodies by technology.

Technology is the phenotype of mind. It is the body for ideas.

Human mind, so essential for its birth. It would be impossible to design the next generation of computers without computers. There is a real sense in which the ideas underlying the phenotype of outward technology are no longer just the thoughts of humans. Technology synthesises / reproduces more advanced technology.

So, more and more technology is an extension of tiny, autonomous virus level impulses that originate in the technological system itself.

In this way, technology has become the seventh kingdom of life like archaea, protists, eubacteria, fungi, plants, and animals which are inside the other six kingdoms of life.

So, we can conclude that virus forming seventh kingdom of life.