Today this Digital Human has been invaded by some digital invaders. Not sure when they first invaded my body and how they got there? Suspect they floated into my respiratory system probably sitting on top of some tiny water droplets. They probably settled inside my lungs and were hopefully attacked by my own immune system’s army of digital guards. But unfortunately my digital guards failed so I am sitting here poorly. They read the gene code inside the digital invader looked inside their own defence’s tool box of gene digital remedies and could not find one to match exactly for an attack. Or maybe it was a numbers game and the number of invaders multiplied at a rate that could not match the number of my own digital guards. Anyway they are certainly winning. With the coronavirus spreading across the world from China and threatening a world pandemic not the time to be experiencing these symptoms. But unlike the fiendishly clever coronavirus, which as the name says on the tin is a virus, I believe mine to be a very dumb bacteria lacking much gene digital cunning.
The digital human provides a suitable envelope of skin for many types of micro-organisms that live happily inside you normally not causing you any problems. Bacteria, viruses, fungi, yeast and protozoa live inside as well as some bigger things like animal parasites like insects, worms and flukes. It’s a wonder you don’t charge them rent. They are happy to move person to person by direct contact or the inhalation of infected air. Plus they can get inside by you eating and drinking contaminated food and drink. You provide a “home” to many of these types of micro-organisms and provided they pay the rent and they don’t cause me any adverse symptoms they are welcome. It would be nice to have a list of all these digital tenants so I can see who is on board at any one time. In fact the medical profession are not far off being able to produce this complete list now for a digital human.
Now bacteria are the simplest of digital devices. Under a microscope they are single cell with a protective wall. Digitally they are very simple with a gene or two within them. Some are a bit more complex in that they are aerobic where they require oxygen so their digital coding has to be a bit more complex with a few more genes. Others are anaerobic and they can survive in oxygen free surroundings like within the bowel and in poo itself. Bacteria can release toxins in their own poo which can generate symptoms by in fact poisoning you through your blood system. Also the area of you around the bacteria can become inflamed as your digital guards fight their battles with the invaders which can affect the working of your organs.
Viruses are smaller than bacteria whilst being a lot more digitally capable with a lot more genes. I am not going to say intelligent but rather that the imbedded processes are more sophisticated. If you like they have a more complex looping digital program. So they have more genes. With these being more complex genes stored within a more robust protein coated outer layer. Now this complexity means they can only reproduce within a living cell by using the hosts replicating digital code. All together a much more complex arrangement with some networking capabilities with the host’s digital cell genes. Some data sharing in fact.
Now bacteria and viruses have been around a lot longer than us. In fact the chemical components that built them went on to be more complex and built us up to be a digital human. It is believed RNA that formed the first digital components that came together before the more complex DNA was evolved from the RNA. A virus takes us back to the purest form of life. Back to the base components of digital life. They have no cell and no brain so they are just working to inbuilt pre-programmed gene logic that essentially are mainly reproduction processes. It is an effective reproduction machine. A silver of genetic material inside a thin protective shell with the sole purpose of making copies of itself. It wants to use me as the home it lives within to make copies of itself. It has no malevolent instincts it does not want to kill you because if it does the virus dies with you. Ideally a virus wants to keep you alive so it does not want to be too deadly. If it were to be too deadly it ends its ability to reproduce by dying inside the first victim. Whilst if it only causes a mild sniffle it can go on to conquer the world.
Now the problem with viruses are two fold in that they are both more sophisticated than bacteria but also able to mutate very quickly to look to improve their chances of survival. This is indicative of their RNA makeup which operates very effectively to make changes based upon direct feedback from other parts of the body.
Protozoa are single celled parasites and they are slightly bigger than bacteria. Many protozoa live in the human intestine and are harmless. Although other types of protozoa cause malaria, sleeping sickness and dysentery.
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