Fascinating!! I’ll be looking for this study, but if you happen across it please send it my way

Brain fog to an extreme degree for many, many months after being sick when I never had any previously, only cropping up after I caught Covid. It feels like such a clear link. I sincerely hope the silver lining here is that it helps propel our understanding of this topic.

Yes, very true, thanks!

Is it an advantage or just “this happened to work out slightly better than the alternatives present at the time”? It’s mostly randomness and a matter of “not so awful it’s untenable” which, over billions of iterations, tends to end up somewhat efficient. To assume that something happens purely because it’s advantageous in a general sense doesn’t really work though. I mean, look at human nasal passages. Horrible, but not so bad it’s untenable.

Edit: to be clear, I say this only to mean that it’s not inherently going to be a logical conclusion we can easily discern. I’m mostly supporting your point.

Thanks, I can’t wait to get a minute to dig into this :D

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks so much for clearing that up! I’m completely ignorant, so I had no idea what the process was like.

I’m sorry, I’m not trying to be pedantic, just making sure I understand, but it does sound like an educated guess, no? An insanely solid goes off course, but it sounds like we’re just really really certain of our guess. That’s enough to convince me, just wanted to be sure I had it right!