This paper's argues that due to half of the early reported cases being linked to the market and the presence animal DNA showing animals were at the market that this is strong evidence. But this is just circumstantial evidence, there is no evidence that these animals were infected, and still to this day the two closest viruses found in the wild were found thousands of kilometers away and are very distantly related with the last common ancestor being decades ago.
What politics of today in any way fit with a 500 story about a magical Monkey fighting monsters? I just want a compelling game, no one is going to change their politics suddenly after playing a magical monkey game. For politics there is a time and a place, do you think there should be political messaging in Banana bread recipes as well?
What politics don't fit in such a story, besides the ones the developers are afraid of telling? Wukong is based on Journey to the West, a story which itself is rife with political allegory. If the developers want to faithfully adapt that story to a new medium, they have to either adapt the original message or update it with a new one. Otherwise you might not even bother basing it on a story at all and just name the main character Donkey Kong.
Being political doesn't mean ranting about Disney movies or trying to endorse political candidates. In Soulslike tradition, it means telling a story about classical conflict defined by postmodern fantasy. Dark Souls was about manipulation and illusion, set against the backdrop of a struggling (fictional) kingdom that grooms the player into supporting a horrible ritual. Sekiro tells a story about monks and clergymen giving up their ritual purity (kegare) to attempt a selfish religious transcendence. Bloodborne is about... well, feminist propaganda, and men ignoring it in order to unravel a science that makes them less human. Elden Ring is entirely propped-up by political intrigue, if you get to the end of the game you genuinely will not understand what has happened unless you understand the diagetic politics of the game's story. These are Wukong's contemporaries, whether the developers like it or not.
So... with that being said, I don't look at Wukong and think "Wow, these developers sure feel confident about the message they're trying to tell". It feels like another example in the far-too-long list of mediocre games released by a state-sponsored Chinese studio too afraid to excel. I don't want to play video games that compromise their storytelling because they're afraid of how the player might react. It's a disrespectful waste of my time.
Interesting that we seem to find SARS-CoV-2 circulating in animals from reverse zoonosis(humans to animals), but we can't find any precursor virus circulating in any animals that would explain the zoonotic spillover in the first place. It's as if the virus vanished in whatever intermediate host after infecting the first human like some sort of immaculate infection event!
I just want to point out that anyone who tries and make arguments about the rare earth or the uniqueness of our solar system based off of observed exoplanets and solar systems should note that due to time and technical limitations we almost exclusively focus on M-type red dwarf stars which shouldn't be used to determine what typical solar systems and planets exist around G-type(sun like stars) or even K-type(the second most common star type) which collectively make up about 20% of stars in our galaxy.
But if we had multiple JWST like telescopes and one dedicated towards observing G and K type stars we could get a better understanding.
And what is this consensus based upon outside of what is most beneficial for their field of study? As stated in the article we have not found any infected animals, no antibodies or samples pointing to infected animals, no precursor viruses found circulating in any animals species, no separate spillover events nothing. This is something we find for all spillovers and all of this evidence was uncovered almost immediately for SARS1/MERS. Take a look at the current bird flu situation cropping up, whenever we find a case, we find infected animals at the farm, we find the virus in animals during random sampling, we find the virus in raw milk, we observe many independent outbreaks etc.
How is it that such an infectious virus no longer exists in any animal population? It's as if after the first human got infected the virus simply vanished off the face of the Earth like some sort of immaculate infection. Now how come when humans infected cats/dogs/deer etc. via reverse zoonosis that SARS2 didn't stop circulating in humans?
Likely precursors have been known in both bats and pangolins since virtually the start of the pandemic (see below) and are widely found in those populations to this day; the entire catalogue of possible precursor genomes in both wild bats and pangolins is (and likely will remain) extremely undersampled (to the degree we barely see any of the current picture of the wild viral load of these animals), so your apparent expectation of them being found in anything like the population of almost entirely domesticated populations of Arabian dromedaries (MERS) and entirely domesticated commercial cattle (current H5N1 spillover risk) is quite simply ludicrous. As it’s entirely possible the spillover mutation was either within a single, long-eaten, animal sample or occurred in a single human post-infection there’s no reason to assume the original lineage of SARS-CoV-2 itself would ever be captured in any wild animal population.
I don’t even know how to speak to the bizarre (but possibly simply badly communicated on your part) assertion that human -> animal re-transmission events either should (or even could) result in a magic cessation of circulation in humans, as that’s just nonsensical. Post human SARS-CoV-2 lineage infections still persist in animal populations (mink, for example) and likely will continue to do so essentially forever… there’s literally nothing immaculate about this entire situation.
The microtubules were from a pigs brain according the material and methods. These proteins exist in all animal cells. So this probably explains why single cell organisms are so intelligent despite not having a brain
>the many-worlds interpretation is basically the result of saying it doesn't
Few problems with this, the state that a particle can be in after the collapse of the wave function follows a probability distribution, so if all states are equally real then why does it seem like some states are more likely than others? Why would probabilities be such a powerful mathematical tool, and how would it work in a MWI.
If all points of the universe branch out into several universes after each particle interaction, where does all this energy come from? If all branches are equally real why even have the wave function in the first place?
> if all states are equally real then why does it seem like some states are more likely than others?
Because some states are more probable than others. That is what the wave-function tells us. It does not give equal probability to every possible outcome.
