Influenza is God
One of the things we need to work on is to cure all diseases. It is a logical step towards immortality.
One of the biggest diseases, and which some humans only have vaguely described as “works like a virus” are the religions and cults.
Although they seem to current living humans as “words” or “memes” spreading, they are actually a result of pure physical brain effects after infection with influenza and other sicknesses.
Somehow noone has seen (although we hoped so) that influenza was first recorded and experienced during the reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten of Egypt. It was a side effect of humans starting to professionalize on keeping animal stock like pigs. This was the same Pharaoh who suddenly dropped all other Gods and introduced and invented monotheism in the world. (Where 400 year later the group around Moses picked it up providing grounding for later religions) (actually Moses didn’t have much to do with it but this is a story for another time).
Probably someone will pick this up and demonstrate the influence on the brain by forms of influenza leading to “strange beliefs” on a non infected human (some are immune).
