Re: [-empyre-] Re: Poetics of DNA II

["sdv@krokodile.co.uk" <sdv@krokodile.co.uk>]

eugene,

Could you explain why the concept of DNA-as-code forecloses idealism or 
empiricism ? It  may be that you are assuming that the following 
sentences referring to the noetic and the noumenal are precisely why you 
believe this... but still I would like to be sure that these comments 
preceded as they are by DNA-as-code threatening to liquidate the thing 
itself, are more explainable.


> One option is to think about what the overall representational notion of DNA-as-
> code doesn’t allow; what does it foreclose to thought? Well, it certainly seems
> to foreclose either straight-up idealism or empiricism. These options seem
> absurd, ridiculous. And maybe, for this reason, interesting. DNA-as-code is
> purely noetic (and thus, in a way, equal to thought) or DNA-as-code is purely
> material (and thus part of a noumenal, inaccessible world “out there”)...
>
> -Eugene
>
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