Re: [-empyre-] a book, dna and code

[Judith Roof <roof12@comcast.net>]

Well, there goes that instant shift to ethics and judgment again.
On Oct 18, 2007, at 4:21 AM, sdv@krokodile.co.uk wrote:

> How then would you understand the current condemnation of Watson ?  
> On the one side condemned for racism and on the other for being a  
> bad scientist.  Where is the ambiguity here ?
>
> Curiously it reminds me of a statement of Chomsky's which argued  
> that: even if it's proven that one group of people are more  
> intelligent than another, this is of no more importance than if one  
> person has green eyes and another brown eyes.
>
> steve
> Judith Roof wrote:
>
> > Probably not.  In this view the real, whatever that is, is always   
> > intricated with language and image.  Culture is no more "true"  
> > than  empiricism, but my point is even more introductory than  
> > that-- language has a sneaky way of being ambiguous no matter what  
> > its  referent is.
> > Judith
>
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