Thoughts and viruses are inert and only active when they connect to live entities.

Unwanted thoughts link up physiologically because we fight them.

They become our identity, cognitive fusion; we can’t differentiate unwanted thoughts from physical threats.

Skills are required to separate you from your repetitive unwanted thoughts.

What is a virus? It is a small segment of genetic material, DNA or RNA, enclosed in a protein envelope. It is neither dead nor alive. It simply exists. Viruses are everywhere. For example, a tablespoon of fresh water contains up to 500 million viruses. The human body contains 100 trillion to one quadrillion of them, far surpassing the number of cells in your body (30 trillion). The vast majority interact with bacteria. They have no internal metabolism; they cannot attack; they just are. (1,2)

Each cell in your body has multiple receptors for various molecules that signal behaviors appropriate to the internal environment as it responds to the external environment. Viruses come in myriad shapes and dock with specific receptors on the cell membrane. The genetic material is injected, and it is game on. The virus is now active and can wreak havoc. The virus must dock with the cell to be functional.

Thoughts are also not alive. What are thoughts? They don’t even exist. They are patterns of electrical activity in the brain that become etched in with repetition. The synapses (the spaces between neurons) become more sensitive, and patterns become the path of least resistance.

Thoughts interpret your physiology

Physiology comes first. Every living organism interacts with its surroundings through physiological and motor responses to optimize survival. The essence of life is found in single-celled organisms, and complexity evolved. This has been true for billions of years. Homo sapiens evolved several hundred thousand years ago without complex language. Other Homo species were essentially as intelligent, but the unique rounded shape of the forehead allowed more complex function. Chimpanzees and bonobos are 98.8 percent genetically similar. Crude language originated about 100,000 to 200,000 years ago, and complex language with abstract thinking is between 50,000........

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