Prion disease, like generic mutations, really boggles my sense of self. There’s no foreign invader battling your own parts for survival. It’s just the substrate that life gets built upon getting fucked up. It highlights the literal truth in the metaphor that we are biological machines.
NewSocialWhoDis@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Prion disease, like generic mutations, really boggles my sense of self. There’s no foreign invader battling your own parts for survival. It’s just the substrate that life gets built upon getting fucked up. It highlights the literal truth in the metaphor that we are biological machines.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Biological Ice-9.
NewSocialWhoDis@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Oh my goodness!! YES.
You can be my special Lemmy friend.