arsenic based life form

[bandwraith at aol.com]

This is HUGE! It helps to answer, "how deep the code goes..."
The question that Benny wonders about, vis-a-vis his Latino/a
dalliance. Because Pynchon, especially in V., is all over code
based replication- Is it by Stencil, or, is it by code? Analog or
digital? Of course, it's both by template, and, by description
(code based). The nucleic acid replicates by template, but
that which is replicated carries in its structure a code, i.e.,
a description which can be translated into a World, by the
appropriate machinery. The appropriate machinery is like
the automaton in Searle's Chinese Room- doesn't know
what or why- just how.

The template replicating code and the coded for World
are complementary- in every sense of that word. Life sits
between them, on the cusp, somewhere between v in
love and the audience/theater.

Now we learn that the code itself is not exclusively
dependent on just those few elements previously
canonized as life-bearing. The conclusion is undeniable.
There must be other audience/theaters for which, in
which, life comes to life- projects itself. This world is
not the only case.

O'Girl, This is HUGE!




-----Original Message-----
From: John Pendergast <jpender at siue.edu>
To: 'P-list' <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thu, Dec 2, 2010 2:46 pm
Subject: arsenic based life form



As the kids say, OMG.
 
NASA research finds a life form that on the molecular level is unlike 
all others on Earth. The bacterium, found in a lake in California, is 
strong evidence that life may not have evolved from a single common 
ancestor.

http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/LI37JS/HDIVGX/BMQGJC/S73MAX/69NTN/B7/h