About machines

>!So have any of you noticed that the aliens' Black Oil being a virus reflects a kind of umdead state? !<

>!Edit: because viruses are widely considered not to be alive!<

>!This ties into the idea of the Super Soldiers, of Scully's implant, of the greys and Bounty Hunters being hardware for Black Oil software (that's a theory),!<>!the whole idea of the aliens' ability to interface with their machinery, revival simulation theory, and the idea in the episode "Aubrey" about people's genes predisposing them to certain behaviors, and Fox's monologue from War of the Coprophages" where he wonders how alien life will differ from human life, whether they will be machine, organic, or something else.!<

>! Since the aliens' machinery can affect the physical and temporal, from the "Pilot", as well as the spiritual, and psychological, from "Dreamland", it gives off the sense that the hybridization project aims to unlock those abilities in humans, and that the Syndicate wants for humans to be the second component that the virus works off.!<

>!Edit: the spiritual phenomena in Dreamland were accidental. the aliens, however, use abilities like prophecy, inventing religious texts, and, according to s11, wormhole generation.!<

>! The virus acting like a machine that can work in conjunction with the human body is a big part of Biogenesis and the Sixth Extinction, since the Black Oil in Mulder's brain that was killed in Tunguska/Terma was a part of his psychic mutation, and what made all the other characters unable to get the mutation by touching the spacecraft.!<