Yes especially now that we’re positive they qualify as the same “life” as the rest of us; it turns out viruses evolved from single-celled organisms, stripping down everything but their DNA and a simple capsule.
Oh here’s one article on viruses reconsidered as living things:
https://www.popsci.com/new-evidence-that-viruses-are-alive
Our definition of “life” is kind of a shaky attempt to classify things to the best of our subjective ability anyway, but if viruses aren’t alive, then they are living things that evolved into non-living things but continue to perpetuate themselves, which is wild!
The existence of giant-size viruses that behave more like unicellular life kind of cemented their place as organisms.
Tiny versions of the SF “brain in a jar” cyborg.
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