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[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

An analyzed string of DNA is letters arranged to convey a living creature; not a thought. ๐Ÿ˜Œ

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah, well that explains away one of the examples... You must be right! (I'd argue that the analysis of DNA is a thought/type of understanding, rather than the essence of a living thing, but that quickly gets towards another linguistic argument of Sausserian structuralism vs post structuralism.)

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm not taking any of this seriously, but if others want to continue taking it that way I'll play along :p