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This conceptual piece reveals viruses as a unique life form, suggesting they influence information entropy in ecology.
Viruses are the only form of life (or quasi-life) that exists solely as information. In the Acta Universi 2025 hypothesis, viruses receive the status of the cleanest and most effective co-authors of the universal archive of AU-field events. They have no metabolism, no cellular structure, but generate entropy of thought forms at a level that is inaccessible even to archaea and bacteria.
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Dmitry Yashchenko (2025) studied this question.
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