I feel like what trips people up is the abstraction layer. Viruses are abstracte...

		GioM 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Giant, fungus-like organism may be a completely un... I feel like what trips people up is the abstraction layer. Viruses are abstracted on top of other living things in the same way that animals are abstracted on top of plants, in that they both require the lower layer of abstraction for their basic survival.