Dad,

I don’t know if you’re interested in thinking about something that’s at best orthogonally related to your own work, but I just read this interview with Marjorie Grene, called the “grandmother of the philosophy of biology” and it’s interesting.

http://www.believermag.com/issues/200503/interview_grene.php

The interesting stuff comes 3/5ths of the way down when she starts talking about morality and genetics and her rejection of the cogito as a starting point for philosophy - basically, she thinks “all knowledge is orientation” so “I am thinking, therefore I am being” is wrong or aside the point, but also that genes and DNA are just STRUCTURE that don’t SPECIFY anything about human existence - like how the mechanics of a computer wouldn’t tell you anything about the word processor you’re running on it. (Some people think genes imply a human morality; you have some unarticulated (to me) belief about genetic memory.)

Anyway, a lot of what is talked about is unintelligible to me, and I was a philosophy major, but it is possible to extract some interesting tidbits.

Also, Greggy’s article about the Weather Underground is in the same issue and there’s a preview:

http://www.believermag.com/issues/200503/article_gipson.php

He’s such a good writer!

love
g