I believe all curiosity stems from the individual trying to understand the world they were placed in: for those humans who are supplied with a sufficient amount of religion which dictates rigidly what the world is - they are sated. For those humans who reject religion usually spend the rest of their lives accumulating a set of facts and philosophies that define the world for them. This is the same path in which the supercells went about understanding their "Super-host", their "Super-mother", their "galaxy", their God - Vergil Ulam. After all the improvements were made to their habitat, they moved on to making the world more hospitable for themselves and to do so they had to understand their environment. They made their way to the brain in hopes
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The only thing that could have led such a drastic switch between human-superbug relations is the murder of Vergil. Until the superbugs entered the body of Edward and Gail they retained a very passive approach to living within the human body, they wanted to grow, learn, and branch out, but not destroy their host. But, in Gail's and Edward’s bodies it was described as a war, “First, they subdued our immune responses. The war – and it was a war, on a scale never before known on Earth, with trillions of combatants – lasted perhaps two days (46).” Subsequently, their bodies were re-envisioned and turned to the living grounds of the organisms, and Gail's and Edward's consciousnesses were absorbed into the collective mass of the organisms. They wasted no time in dismantling their environment and making it hospitable for them. As farfetched as it sounds, I believe that these beings, once inside Edward, used their prior experience to quickly enter his head and sift through his consciousness to come to the realization of humanity’s cruel act. “They had learned inside Vergil; their tactics within the two of us were very different (47).” The critical issue is that they no longer trust humanity, they’ve grown dictatorial as Edward reports, “it was becoming apparent that any sensation of freedom we
The only thing that could have led such a drastic switch between human-superbug relations is the murder of Vergil. Until the superbugs entered the body of Edward and Gail they retained a very passive approach to living within the human body, they wanted to grow, learn, and branch out, but not destroy their host. But, in Gail's and Edward’s bodies it was described as a war, “First, they subdued our immune responses. The war – and it was a war, on a scale never before known on Earth, with trillions of combatants – lasted perhaps two days (46).” Subsequently, their bodies were re-envisioned and turned to the living grounds of the organisms, and Gail's and Edward's consciousnesses were absorbed into the collective mass of the organisms. They wasted no time in dismantling their environment and making it hospitable for them. As farfetched as it sounds, I believe that these beings, once inside Edward, used their prior experience to quickly enter his head and sift through his consciousness to come to the realization of humanity’s cruel act. “They had learned inside Vergil; their tactics within the two of us were very different (47).” The critical issue is that they no longer trust humanity, they’ve grown dictatorial as Edward reports, “it was becoming apparent that any sensation of freedom we