From: phyllis bergiel (neilfl@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Sun May 04 2003 - 14:55:40 BST
Hey Dan--
It really is a lazy Saturday for you isn't it? Want to come by and help mow
the lawn?
Speaking of being facetious, do you think a dead cat is configured by
DNA?>
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1403356203/qid=1049224153/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/104-4929546-7109543?v=glance&s=books
>
> Now, I have cats myself, but all mine are alive. It's true that in the
past
> I've had some cats that have died for various reasons but I buried them. I
don't really know if they are still being configured by DNA or not, but I
don't think they are (I'm not digging them up to find out). Maybe a >
biologist like Jonathan could answer that one. :)
>
Before Jonathan can put me to shame with a learned biology answer, let me
try a philosophical one that is much discussed at my house. My husband has
a great interest in the philosophy of finitude, so I'll try to tie it to the
MoQ.
Perhaps the reason death is so repulsive and fearful, a force to fight, to
most humans is that this is the ultimate and unavoidable example of a lower
level of patterns overtaking a higher one. Struan's (and wow, wouldn't he
be fun to psychoanalyze him) cat is no longer being configured by DNA a
biological pattern, but is subject to inorganic ones:
-the worms crawl in, the worms crawl out.
-the worms play pinochle in your mouth
Sorry, it's a lazy Sunday morning and I'm procrastinating about finishing a
paper.
Phyllis
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