I think we can all agree the universe can be looked upon and is best understood from a purely mathematical perspective. So it's not really that radical an idea that viruses and life itself are simply an inherent property of mathematics. I think we tend to visualize mathematics as numbers on paper, but it's also easy to argue that the true natural expression of mathematics is found in the universe itself, in what we observe all around us, and even what we don't. The universe's version of numbers on paper is energy in vacuum, and just as numbers can be used to create functions with properties, protons, neutrons, and electronics can be used to create objects with properties that we as Humans and observers of energy in vacuum know and love.
For a long time, we as Humans have left ourselves out of the mathematical equation thinking ourselves above it, but I think it's clear to anyone rational today that we are within it, and if we look closely at our own mathematics, and the mathematics of our reality, we should find common patterns of self replicating loops which form life, and even big loops made up of trillions of little loops if we consider the Human organism as a whole with it's countless cells. Perhaps finding such patterns in mathematics could give us insight to the question of if there is life in the universe, it's prevalence, and even what ends it.
I also wonder if such math could offer clues toward developing true AI.
It should be a new branch of math. I will call it... Loop Theory!
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Math is logic, and if life exists then it should be expressible in math.
If something is logical, must it also then be rational?