From: Unleesh-AT-aol.com
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 23:11:29 EST
Subject: Re:  Anything Goes


"Lorber has since gone on to discover numerous other individuals who function
normally but possess no brain. For example, in an article published in Science
in 1980, science writer Roger Lewin reported that at the Children's Hospital
in Sheffield, Lorber has done more than 600 such scans on patients with
hydrocephalus. In the study, he divided the patients into four groups : those
with nearly normal brains, those with cerebrospinal fluid filling 50 to 70
percent of the cranium ; those in which it fills 70 to 90 percent ; and the
most severe group, those in which cerebrospinal fluid fills 95 percent of the
cranium. In this last group, which comprised just less than 10 percent of the
study, half of the individuals were severely mentally disabled, but the
remaining half possessed IQs greater than 100." -- Michael Talbot, Beyond the
Quantum

The Body Without Organs is a cybernetic termite's nest. The body without
organs is a slime mold. Coherency is only determined as the result of the
creation of an aesthetic ; the universe abounds with square pegs for our
rounded holes. Code is detached and configured according to an aesthetic,
always detached from some other aesthetic formation, new informations being
generated by thefts and deterritorializations of other information-flows. No
one has access to the totality of information. Everything is a selection, a
sample. "System" is an arbitrary limitation and narrowing of one's filters to
create an aesthetic system ; it is no more consistent than any random
eclecticism, because it is impossible to produce a representative
informational system.

(un)leash