“Praise be to the occluded genetic ladders, whose rungs are blind to us, bedimmed by clouds, intestinal clouds, now gone blue & black.”
Doller, Ben. “The Canary Islands.” Radio, Radio: Poems. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. p. 11.
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“That biologically produced light is important in the economy and development of marine deep-sea life is indicated by the fact that eyes are present in deep-sea forms, whereas in the fresh-water fauna of caves where light is absent and where there are no light producers the fishes are blind. To animals with eyes, the direct use of light-producing organs is perhaps to be found in the aid such light gives the higher forms in recognizing individuals of their own species, for the arrangement of the light organs and even, in some instances, the color of the light are specific.”
Sverdrup, H. U., Martin W. Johnson, and Richard Howell Fleming. The Oceans: Their Physics, Chemistry, and General Biology. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1942. pp. 835.
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“You know what it ‘feels’ like to experience the vibrant redness of a ladybug’s shell, for instance, but you could never describe that redness to a blind person, or even to a color-blind person who cannot distinguish red from green.”
Ramachandran, V. S. The Tell-tale Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human. New York: W.W. Norton, 2011. p. 84.
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“This realm is gradually mediated in the course of the historical transformation of Nature; it becomes part of the human world, and to this extent, the qualities of Nature are historical qualities. In the process of civilization, Nature ceases to be mere Nature to the degree to which the struggle of blind forces is comprehended and mastered in the light of freedom."
Marcuse, Herbert. One-Dimensional Man. London: Routledge, 2002. pp. 240-41.
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