Re: (Reply to Benzon)

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Sun 25 May 2003 - 19:26:38 GMT

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    > On Sunday, May 25, 2003, at 02:58 PM, Gudmundur wrote:
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    > > But if it weren't for an existing interpretative context
    > > (scientists' minds and other paraphernalia) published genes would
    > > not mean anything to anyone. Similarly, for DNA to convey any
    > > information there has to be the interpretative environment of the
    > > cell. So, a more accurate view of information is to see it as
    > > emerging when some system (scientist, cell, etc.) interprets a
    > > series of signifiers/signs (DNA, letters, etc.).
    >
    > And there it is.
    >
    And the system doing the interpreting is the cognitive gestalt, and it interprets by recourse to the memes and noncommunicable experiences it has assimilated..
    >
    > - Wade
    >
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