Biological Life is More Than It Seems: Aiming Upward from the Flat Ontology of Materiality
The Meaning Code
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The Importance of Information in Art
Michael Levin has discovered in his work with cells and bioelectric communication that when a tadpole develops into a frog the eyes end up in the right place because somehow it's not in the DNA. So there is an idea of correct but sometimes it has to be got at from a different direction. You're being driven by something even higher than say a photocopy of the thing that you're trying to do I mean in your art you have looked at it right so as you're getting closer to actualizing what you've been thinking about, those kinds of things are more important.
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