arsenic based life form

[Robin Landseadel]

I'm not sure I completely understand what you just said but I sure  
want to.

On Dec 2, 2010, at 5:58 PM, bandwraith at aol.com wrote:

> 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!