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72The best way I know to sum this up is: language is to consciousness what matter is to chirality. To be clear, my purpose in all this is not to enter apologetics, or to offer an argument from design, or to go so far as to claim that McCarthy is affirming a teleology in some holistic way in his opus (though it may be possible). If the language/chirality analogy holds, it brings a consistent mode of interpretation to McCarthy’s constant interrogation of natural law. For if chirality bears some relation on what has conventionally been called natural law, then natural law, through thesis and antithesis, is unquestionably an enduring area of interest in McCarthy’s work. A twist on natural law is encapsulated in the thinking of Child of God’s (1973) Lester Ballard, who cannot begin to comprehend how hawks mate, but remains confident in the knowledge “that all things fought” (168)—a conclusion not dissimilar to Hobbes’s revision of natural law presuming the state of “war of every man against every man”—the well-known doctrine of bellum omnium contra omnes (Hobbes 83). For Suttree this awareness extends even to the microscopic things in a drop of water. If natural law dictates the goodness of life, what if life is inclined to be, in some sense, so zealously protective of itself as to be viciously amoral or outright evil?
CHIRALITY AND THE POLITICS OF AUTHORIZED AND UNAUTHORIZED
ENGLISH IN THE WORKS OF JOHN CLARE AND AMOS TUTUOLA
By
Mukoma Wa Ngugi*
A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy
(English)
At the
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON
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Biological molecules chose one of two structurally, chiral systems which are related by reflection in a mirror. It is proposed that this choice was made, causally, by magnetically polarized and physically chiral cosmic-rays, which are known to have a large role in mutagenesis. It is shown that the cosmic rays can impose a small, but persistent, chiral bias in the rate at which they induce structural changes in simple, chiral monomers that are the building blocks of biopolymers. A much larger effect should be present with helical biopolymers, in particular, those that may have been the progenitors of RNA and DNA. It is shown that the interaction can be both electrostatic, just involving the molecular electric field, and electromagnetic, also involving a magnetic field. It is argued that this bias can lead to the emergence of a single, chiral life form over an evolutionary timescale. If this mechanism dominates, then the handedness of living systems should be universal. Experiments are proposed to assess the efficacy of this process.
CHIRAL PUZZLE OF LIFE Noemie Globus1,2 and Roger D. Blandford3
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Richard L.
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Which has already blossomed into an interesting discussion. See one, see both.
Mr. Glass mentions that Clark Kent and Superman parted their hair on different sides, but I think the greater chirality back then was another DC comic featuring the Bizarro world where Superman and all else were reversed. And of course all of the science fiction links at the en-wiki site.
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I’ve long been familiar with the term “doppelgänger” but had never given it much serious thought as it relates to the world at large.
Cormack Mcarthy Society
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Notes: on finding JanusWords and enantiomers, chirality, and such, I thought, this is going to scale up to war, like the JanusWar in Ukraine, and the wars thru out history...enemies mirror one another...and it's probably a false cognate to say JanusPolitics is like JanusChemistry/Physics; I said it, a reach...nouns and verbs are like matter and energy, both the fundamental parts of vast universes, one of Language, the other of Nature...from just being a novelty, JanusWords became a metaphor for Chirality...the Right Hand Left Hand universe is one of those things Anton Petrov on youtube goes on about!...brb...yep, he reviews The Chiral Puzzle of Life...Hobbes is so annoying, together with Machiavelli, welp, they're the dopplegangers of Superman-Bizarro!
...brb...oh, found a forum comment with just those three words, Superman, Bizarro, and doppelganger!...go figure...
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