Re: Wtr: LIFESCIENCE: organic political economic morality

[Trevor <tebatt@dds.nl>]

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ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 99
LIFESCIENCE
Linz, Austria, September 04 - 09
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On 25-May-99, Prof. Dr. Birgit Richard wrote:
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>ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 99
>LIFESCIENCE
>Linz, Austria, September 04 - 09
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>> > >-Any disease which kills its victims is essentially committing suicide!
>>

>may the viruses not spring over to another species leaving its host after
>killing it?

Sure -but, if they are really successful, after a while there will be no more
hosts left to spring over to!


>> >>  maybe we dont know how diseases really happen.. as all bodies are
>> > continually in a flux of birth life death ...maybe things like heart
>> > disease really are "contagious" and can transfer to another host..if they
>> > go fast they  doent need patient zero for long. viruses (specally the
>> > sensational ones like ebola) are pretty smart like that.. im fascinated
>> > that   t now seems that many common  diseases  that were assumed t be
>> > discreet to one body  are actually virally caused -like ulcers, cervical
>> > cancer etc.

>this is a fact although medical science concerning gentests and gentherapy do
>a
>dangerous prediction that many diseases all already genetically tranferred
and
>people should prepare for their own death.

Well, I guess that may be a sensible precaution for us all!

>> > http://www.heartmath.org/ResearchPapers/Touch/Touchsum.html  a healing
>> > energy transfer that a lot of alternate medical practices subscribe to
...
>> > but was not "measurable" ..so now is measureable and visible..therefore
we
>> > can say it exists and exerts influence)
>>

>that4s an important point we are dealing with none visible structure and have
>to
>rely on someone who is able to visualizes microstructures like the DNA
>complex.
>but we always forget that this is no neutral act coming out of the structures
>of
>nature but is done by a human being to deal with a phenomenon that is
>difficult
>to put into images.

Perhaps this is because the view of science (and probably much more)
propagated by the media/culture industry is "result" orientated and not
"process"
orientated. Which brings us back to "conceptualism" -the (Humanist) focus on
"semantics" which makes one generally blind for "syntax".

By the way -Is there anyone out there who does NOT come from the (Western)
Humanist
Tradition?

DOES it make a difference?


>> Personally, I always find it a little encouraging when something appears to
>> become measurable (and indeed therefore visible).
>>

>the measurability is important for human beings because one cannot live in
not
>organized chaotic structures, our perception needs something to lean on.

-or leaning on something tends to make it visible!

>> Many people also feel economically bound not to be ill!
>>

>they cannot afford to be ill and keep going to work although they should stay
>at
>home to cure the illness

-Which might have deprived them of the spiritual experience of being ill!
(actually, this last remark is NOT as sarcastic as many may be tempted to
think)

In fact -it is probably the focal-point:

How much human endevour (scientific, artistic, philosophical, religious and
even economic) is driven by the desire to either avoid or come to terms
with suffering -indeed how little is not derived from this!

To be successful is to fail (a non-symmetrical law of nature)!

trevor


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