I couldn't agree more! I imagine humans creating massive architectures of this organic technology, before going extinct and leaving it all in the hands of AI, who eventually abandon it, and leave it to it's own devices in this way. Universes within Universes within awareness.

Yes: self-aware.

I would argue that all living things have the same desires you might call "human", albeit simplified, and likely without the added complexity made necessary via the perception of tribe or familial group as an extension of self. Literally every single human desire is tied to survival via the neuronal survival-mechanism of the brain. Can you find a single thought you've had today that isn't (even loosely) related to survival/procreation? We are almost constantly attempting to seek out safety/security, comfort, and control; and to avoid danger, discomfort, or uncertainty. I'm not sure what "behave like a human" is specifically referring to, but I can certainly see animals following the same survival urges that we do.

I do agree that, in this imagined scenario, the sentience might develop differently than we can see in ourselves: having different parameters in which to define it's sense of self/identity, and that it's survival-mechanism movements might be calibrated via a difference in perspective and the definition of it's own sense of identity.

I'm not, or course saying this is all so: but I imagine it to be somewhat unethical, even arrogant to not consider the possibility.

Imagine if those cells were even somewhat aware, and were forced into repetitive number crunching with no means to understand the cause of it's bondage or to ever escape, or even die? Would make for quite the horrific reveal for a horror movie ending.

They were actually pretty effective at preventing symptomatic infections prior to Delta and Omicron.

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-pfizer-vaccine-tra-idUKKBN2AQ1A7

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7762(21)00127-7/fulltext

Still better than the flu shot most seasons then.

Not knocking the gathering of information on display here, but I'm sure glad that other studies are starting to focus on aspects of the COVID-19 vaccine immune-response other than antibodies. We've become antibody-obsessed, when it's totally normal to not always have antibodies floating around in you.

Nothing could be more manly than this.

You wouldn't have to suppress a fear system in order to help others if your fear system recognizes the value to one's own self in helping your (perceived) tribe, or the potential danger in either tribe members being harmed, or in losing the tribe's trust in you, or your perceived value to them. It wasn't very long ago that being ousted from your group meant certain death.

I think we underestimate how hundreds of thousands of years of surviving against superior predators and harsh environments through cooperative means has contributed to our brain's survival mechanism's complexity.