arsenic based life form

[Bekah]

Robin -  the stuff is only about 100 miles  (as the crow flies) away from you -   be prepared for stranger than usual organisms.  (heh)

Bekah


On Dec 2, 2010, at 7:33 PM, Robin Landseadel wrote:

> 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!
>