“as long as the

word ‘life’ is retained for practical or epistemological reasons, the dual approach in biology

will surely persist.” Niels Bohr

"We must wonder if our linguistic tools are competent to address, on the other side of development, the dynamic

vagueness underlying the emergence of systems into our world." Stanley Salthe

Project: to wikify the concept of "life" - "on beyond living" in order to provide a map of the subjective, teleological aspect of living systems analogous to genomic heuristics. "What does it feel like to be alive"? becomes an evolving scientific questions subject to ongoing heuristic transformaiton. The doubleness of the "secret of life" - disjunction of clinton's speech, Wikify means it is always about to be rewritten, even erased. BioAesthetic is playground, tool box, ready made set of protocols for this rewriting which evolution is doing all the time. Sexual and Natural Selection and metaprogramming our understanding of evolution.

dynamic vaguenss and omphalosophia

Not about whether it is true, since "There is no definitive statement of the Copenhagen Interpretation2 since it consists of the views developed by a number of scientists and philosophers at the turn of the 20th Century"

psychologically field tested, a heuristic way of exploring, including the production of other interpreations/visions. To wit, From Robert Anton Wilson

"I DO NOT BELIEVE ANYTHING

This remark was made, in these very words, by John Gribbin, physics editor of New Scientist magazine, in a BBC-TV debate with Malcolm Muggeridge, and it provoked incredulity o the part of most viewers. It seems to be a hangover of the medieval Catholic era that causes most people, even the educated, to think that everybody must "believe" something or other, that if one is not a theist, one must be a dogmatic atheist, and if one does not think Capitalism is perfect, one must believe fervently in Socialism, and if one does not have blind faith in X, one must alternatively have blind faith in not-X or the reverse of X.

My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence. The more certitude one assumes, the less there is left to think about, and a person sure of everything would never have any need to think about anything and might be considered clinically dead under current medical standards, where absence of brain activity is taken to mean that life has ended.

My attitude is identical to that of Dr. Gribbin and the majority of physicists today, and is known in physics as "the Copenhagen Interpretation," because it was formulated in Copenhagen by Dr. Niels Bohr and his co-workers c. 1926-28. The Copenhagen Interpretation is sometimes called "model agnosticism" and holds that any grid we use to organize our experience of the world is a model of the world and should not be confused with the world itself. Alfred Korzybski, the semanticist, tried to popularize this outside physics with the slogan, "The map is not the territory." Alan Watts, a talented exegete of Oriental philosophy, restated it more vividly as "The menu is not the meal."

[Copenhagen Interpretation allows for the psychological inhabitation of the paradox of the dual teleomechanical aspect of life. "Nothing is Alive" ( keller, denes)

Wikipedia criticism: "The Copenhagen Interpretation gives special status to measurement processes without clearly defining them or explaining their peculiar effects." Measurement as an irreducibly biological activity. ( rotman, semiotics of mathematics and the dissipative model of counting)

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but are jointly necessary for our understanding of the phenomena." McKaugan on Bohr

teleomechanic enjambment and biometrics: That's not me!

for Delbruck’s research was the hope of encountering essential limitations in the reduc-

tionist project that would require supplementation by a perspective employing purposive

concepts."

"Teleological approaches, which had so often been marginalized or associated

with “the old idea of a mystic life force,” can now be recognized as “equally indispensable”

for biology.22 Such approaches thus stand in a conceptual relation analogous to the notion

of complementarity encountered in quantum mechanics. The clear need for such dual

modes of description in atomic physics lends scientific respectability to the suggestion that

biologists also quite properly employ complementary modes of description."

a corrolary to Godel, Church, Turing:A Neurogenetic Ecodelic Axiom Not that we can't know, but that we can't NOT know what it is like to be: this irreducible living system enmeshed with these layers of the ecosystem: Lithosphere, biosphere,infosphere, noospshere? and feel a sense of purpose. Exploring that knowledge = aesthetics; Might we have explore asethetics in a feedback loop with our biosocial nature? Cue Ecodelic reading that might enthuse the BioAesthetic to explore the ecosystemic role of museums as we future?

ironically this is the exploration of a navel, omphalos

psychonautics since Hoffmann explore this irreducibility and extraordinary sensitivity to initial rhetorical conditions. Experimental Arrangments include rhetorical practices of describing living systems. Roland Fischer. Martindale and Fischer

Burroughs on the irreducibility Living systems - a metabolic reading: The map is not the territory; Cutting Up Wolfram

The Museum is not the territory - evolutionary aesthetic & Gaia Aesthetic; Leary distributed biotechnics

Outro: Omphalos for Thermodynamic Visions: A Triumph of the Absurd ( Monod)

pp. 364-386 ecodelic