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April 10, 2006
Back to metaphysics:--- to Deleuze on difference and unity that was approached in this post. In Difference and Repetition Deleuze says:
An organism is nothing if not the solution to a problem, as are each of its differenciated organs such as the eye which solves a light 'problem'; but nothing within the organism, no organ, would be differenciated without the internal mileu endowed with a general effectivity or integrating power of regulation. (Here again, in the case of living matter, the negative forms of opposition and contradiction, obstacle and need, are secondary and derivative in relation to the imperatives of an organism to be constructed or a problem to be solved.) (p. 211)
It's odd to see an organisim as a solution to a problem, but it makes sense if we think in evolutionary terms. How then does Deleuze understand the 'integrating power of regulation'? He says:
The only danger in all of this is that the virtual could be confused with the possible. The possible is opposed to the real; the process undergone by the possible is therefore a 'realisation'. By contrast the virtual is not opposed to the real; it possses a full reality by itself.The process it undergoes is that of actualisation. It would be wrong to see only a verbal dispute here: it is a question of existence. (p.211)
Hence the emphasis is on actualisation that takes place by difference, divergence or differeciation. In this sense actualization or differenciation is a genuine creation, as it does not result from any limitation fo a pre-exsiting possibility.
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