Natural Science and philosophy has a lot of interesting things to say about Parasitism.

Parasitism is an ism, it is not good nor bad. It is fundamental, it is a necessity, it is a natural state. We all display parasitic behaviors in some stages of our life just we are are individual champions and part of several collectives.

Parasitism is natures way of keeping us on our toes.


PhD Anders M. Gyllestad has written a fantastic paper on "Parasitism", and states:
"The parasite is an exciter. Far from transforming a system, changing its nature, its form, its elements, its relations and its pathways the parasite makes it change states differentially. It inclines it. It makes the equilibrium of the energetic distribution fluctuate. It dopes it. It irritates it. It inflames it. Often this inclination has no effect. But it can produce gigantic ones by chain reactions or reproduction."
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