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FleshFactor: Re: Shafer Ramsey re: epistemological tails
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Shafer Ramsey wrote:
>Life isn't as complex as we think it is. We -make- it complex by not
>completely defining the terms. There is no definition for Intelligence,
>Life, Death, Good or Evil. Until we define these terms we will always see
>various problems as complex and goals unattainable. How can you map out
>intelligence/life experiences when you don't have a definition of what
>those concepts are?
Well, good luck eh? Shafer: might it be that there is a very good reason
why these slippery things have not been 'defined'? Might it be that these
things can't be quantified, and that to apply a scientific version of
signification to them would be utterly reduce their efficacy as slippery
signifiers? What would Deleuze and Guattari say to all this? I'll tell
you: 'NO signifier, never interpret'.
Grayson Cooke <gcooke@alcor.concordia.ca>
Humanities Doctoral Programme
Concordia University
Montreal
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