On the purely technical front, the prev post (third para up) is not exactly right. It seems flu virus is composed of segments of RNA that can 'drift' into variants which the antibody is able to recognise. Covid is composed of a long chain of RNA which can recombine with other Covids to form a variant that is less easy for the antibody to recognise.
On the other hand, the immune-system as a whole is both innate and adaptive and designed to impinge on germs that enter the body. It seems reasonable to suppose that the more the overall system is responsive to danger, the more the white blood cells that specialise in viral attacks - leukocytes and T-cells - will be there.
Science deals in the active-ingredients - which happen to be leukocytes - but the design of the entire system which is contained in the blood and lymph is implicated.
T-cells are very bright and can do brilliant things, but they have to be ready for the fight in the first place which includes the strength of innate and adaptive in tandem. The idea of strength - the power of the blood - is not necessarily a scientific one, but it really involves the complete rhythmic situation occuring inside the blood.
Avengers #93 page 12 Neal Adams art
If you take a look at Neal Adams' design from P203, it has a certain unreality since he's designing it from his head. However, the dynamic swirling actions correspond well to physical processes. As was noted in P203, fish swarms make good analogues for protein-folding, and proteins are responsible for all these actions inside the body.
A hyper-reall illusion that inhabits logical space will not also inhabit rhythmic space. If logical sequences of DNA attract the ego of acolytes, the nemesis is the body that is cutoff from natural rhythms of recovery, represented by rough areas that strengthen the immune-system by opposition (P203).
Instead of oppositional responses that strengthen by virtue of difference, we are condemned to universal sameness in a global laboratory. Measurement becomes everything, algorithms triumph, the ego is sated and the profane serpent of corrupt rhythm is abroad.
Where genes are concerned, the sexual breeding element is never far away; Mr Sinister from the X-Men (P203) is a good approximation of this pervy side to the mainstream.
Hyper-realism is always going to have this effect on the ego (of acolytes) and essentially the same holds for Relativity space (of satellite arrays and GPS). Everything is measurement, algorithmic for the sated ego.
The 'resolved space' of CL Moore's overlapping realities of an artificial asteroid in Judgement Night (see also 'The Airtight Garage'). Hyper-realism is the illusion of parallel realities that are defined by measurement to convince the ego. Within this illusion exists the profane serpent which distorts natural rhythms with Mr Sinister's pervy glee.
This undulating reptilian horror must be one of the hopeless addicts, wealthy enough to indulge his madness even when civilization was crumbling outside the walls of Cyrille. (Omnibus p484)
What are these real rhythms? Well, if a protein folds spontaneously, a galaxy spirals. These activities are extremely similar, and both echo the swarms of fish (P203). The cosmos echoes the microcosm.
Unfortunately, science cannot leave its habitat of inductive logic because this is what attracts the ego with number and algorithm. When science spies these rhythms, it is seeing through the sterile space to the fertile area outside.
This is the area where meaning (epistemology) occurs through cosmic rhythms. However,as noted (P201), it has epistemology but not precise measurement. Precise measurement is supposedly for adults and everything else for kids, but you could also say it's an illusion of a parallel reality!
The illusion is very convincing for the fact that it's composed of precise measurements. Where there is imprecision, of course there will exist people to take advantage of that. The truths of herbalism area undermined by the charlatan (see Ben Jonson The Alchemist.)
Yes, the human condition and character is imperfect, but the alternative is a belief in rational rules that become more preposterous by the day.
The belief is bolstered by logical space, when scientists are even now seeming to be coming-round to the idea that gene expressions in phenotype (body, somatic) are best represented by a fish swarm algorithm (prev.)
In other words, in the body the selection of genes (by proteins) for a particular somatic act (neck muscles, say) resembles the movement of a fish swarm. It's all about balance and nothing about logic (see Corneille: the illogical contains the logical.)
The trouble is, the logical, sterile space bolsters beliefs that are irrational even when they follow rules of logic! Outside the logical space exists the real world of swirling stars and shoals in the sea. It can't be measured in the same sense, and algorithms are just a way of holding on toligic where none really exists apart from the waves of transcendent rhythms.
The primitive and the physical are out there, outside the illusion of logic. There are always choices to make; between comedy and tragedy outside of the modern illusion. The psyche is nourished ('Feed your head', White Rabbit) by macrocosm and microcosm alike.
Tell the truth but tell it in slant
Success in Circuit lies. Emily Dickinson (quoted in New York Times in article on Christmas)
Logic is s type of trap for the ego that leads to illusory reality. It doesn't necessarily supply physical meaning, and therefore the psyche is short-changed.
You might ask: doesn't the psyche require decisive truths? Not necessarily. If the truth were decisive there would be no journey, no story to tell. No spiralling yarns a la X-Men.
Those who reckon the ego is a repository to truth are living an illusion of the mind. The world is above all active and governed by animal will and
FLOWERS OF THE NIGHTYoutu.be/Z1mDXp8uaKo
Is astrology for epistemologists or charlatans? It's an open question, and it's also an active world of foraging and scenting (animal-like).
Omnipotent expertise doesn't actually exist because all it means is you're inside a closed space of a closed minded of sterile logic. Only in fertile areas is there oppositional strength, the strength of difference.
You'll get extreme accuracy but not the ghoulish romance of swirling carrion-feeders.
