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Why? Stop giving this guy free god-man status and tell me why he is so clever? what is he saying to u that I cannot say to u more convincingly and with more gravitas? and no, I am not joking.

Put a better way, what can one do with his knowledge? how does his understanding improve our understanding? how does it improve our chances of out-running our collective demons? I will go ahead and tell u that it doesn't.

​@@skyjuiceificationwell then humanity really is on a highway to destruction.

@@skyjuiceification stuff he knows and you don't? findings he has found and you haven't? descriptions of work he has done and you haven't? i don't think anyone here wants to be a 'god man', out of the viewers, the producers, chomsky, myself and - no wait, there IS you. but apart from that i don't think anyone here is that interested in how much fun people say they are at parties.

You’re a very lucky person my friend.

Why would Chomsky be, "playing Descartes?" Chomsky is an Empiricist (Locke) not a Rationalist (Descartes.) You must have had some momentary dyslexia when you made this You Tube comment.

@@BlantonDelbert He believes in innate ideas- linguistic universals/'depth grammar'- that makes him a Cartesian, his acknowledgment of which began our discussion. Read his debate with Skinner. Language acquisition cannot, according to Prof. Chomsky, be fully explained as a form of learned behavior. The basis of it must be basic acts that we perform naturally, such as associating sights and sounds: See dada, say 'dada'.

@@BlantonDelbert it's flipped, he's a rationalist, not an empiricist

Read 'a galilean science of language' paper for a thorough critique of Chomsky showing that his method of doing science is not rigorous and is significantly flawed. He hasn't really done anything of intellectual merit since his early stuff. He is extremely over rated, highly dogmatic and mostly relies on and repeats his views that he's held for years without changing them in the face of devastating evidence proving them wrong.

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and they quoted others with even more praise =)

I really wish those people would stfu, frankly. The ego it must take.

Yea the video should simply starts from when the real speaker starts his speech

Organization of mind and brain has to be understood to corelate language followed by result oriented action, is applicable to animals, when faced by some danger an animal makes a sound understood by all other animals to corelate a particular animal and a particular danger calling for actions accordingly. Once a cat had all seven kittens transferred to another location, but the cat re located all seven kittens to another place of her choice, proving they can count.

This is a brilliant question.

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Pointing out concision or?...

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Noam claims our language didn't change much in the last 100,000 years, but when we find our expressions from 500 years ago they differ from those 2000 years ago.

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@@sweetbrown3476 Good good, i kinda overslept and the weather is the unmotivated kind of snowing. Thanks for asking, hope you doing well too! I guess it's only polite to ask too: Are you doing well and how is the weather over there?

U have said what has always been in my mind.

also cool that the purpose of language is thought not communication

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Laser light sees through it all--not one thing escapes his understanding.

He doesn't need it, wouldn't want to take it from another--very humble.

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Yes, Bravo.

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@@sweetbrown3476 some kind of machine learning exercise?

Catalhoyuk videos might give you an idea, to look further.

Usually, the more intelligent the introducer, the less time they spend on intros. We all know who Chomsky is, and if you're smart, you know we dont care about you, blabbermouths. The more time you spend grandstanding, the less time people have to ask questions.

Most profs in the world are not known at all. Academic guest speakers are usually introduced in that manner. No need in Chomsky's case but thats just how its done.

I know! I just skip over it.

you mean 4 minutes

But its very interesting that it functions like a kind of "plug-in" to give us novel 'language mediated' thoughts. Linguistic thoughts have a different character and, importantly, function to non-linguistic thoughts. So the feeling of hunger is functionally different to the sentence "I am hungry", for example. One is like an internal memo whilst the other is 'packaged', potentially, for external use as a signal. So in this view language is the evolved propensity to externalise, through the older sensory/motor mode, the internal

Of course not. That's like saying "walking does not require feet". You can probably do some form of walking without feet, but for humans this is severely limiting. Language does refine and expand our capacity for thought. Children who have normal functioning brains but are prevented from learning language (e.g. feral children) develop severe cognitive disabilities and have trouble learning and understanding concepts that everyone else easily understands with language.

Thought does require language. Chomsky's example was rather weak, imo. If I find a way to get to place Y from place X - I am engaging in thought and what makes up my thoughts? Words. Even if it's image-based such as I picture a mental map of the neighborhood I'm in all of this can be done only because I have categories and these categories are built using language.

+Jaii Raph He explained it clearly in the Q&A. "It doesn't... conform to simple introspection." Meditation does not require language. Most scholars don't meditate. Meditation is self-thought. This doesn't require the generative expression of language. As he stated many times the endeavour of modern human science was to explain (or express) the world as a mechanical system since that is the system our biology has allowed us to communicate to one another with. This one step beyond fundamental communication, the composition of it, is simply the organization of our thoughts in relation to others, which has played a vital role in our evolutionary domination of the planet... family. The problem with our species is the "limitations" he presupposes. We consider our band to be the _closest_ 100 specimen in our own species. However, considering the actual information available in this age we can understand that all living things are our family and even more so that all reality exists as one. Their third tier mind creates it all. Therefore it doesn't take a genius like Noam to suggest that thought doesn't require language. Animals have been proven to have brain activity similar to human thought and they function without the biological adaptation of processing languages. It gets down to one's definition of a thought and our need to share our's to survive.

+Charlotte Marceau I like your example. Internalization works the same as externalization. They are the functional organization of our thoughts. However *_introspection_* which is what Noam mentions is different. It does't require organization of thought or free expression. It only requires conscious awareness of one's being. This is more fundamental than internal reflection.

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+MckennaCountrCulture A more admirable aim would have been to spark intelligent discussion. As I believe was the purpose of his talk.

K, say something smart then .

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On the other hand, the audience asked some very good questions. It is necessary to be lost at first in order to understand new things.

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Tyson is no match, not even close , he is just a physicist

Describe to us all what ego is?

pretty sure it's "endowment"

something arbitrarily gifted to an individual or entity, or an honor entitled to some x (being an object, institution, or otherwise independent entity)

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Am I correct to say the challenge in reference to language is: how can 25 or so sounds create an unlimited number of words, sentences, communicative structure and thought?

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Noam may not be as energetic as his younger self but i assure you his mind is still working quite well.

@@robertstewart4953 why are you logged in with your fake account, Noam ?

@@noninvasive_rectal_probe8990 good one weeb. Full internet access and that was the best one liner you could muster. I can see how you may be too dense to understand the Professor's complicated rhetoric.

@@robertstewart4953 lol, he just a linguist and does not spread inaccessible knowledge. But I have seen him at his ~50 and there is no doubt that he has been way better and pellucid

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what the fuck are you on about

@@abegazkebede57 I'm saying he's a lying controlled opposition shill who pretends crazed Muslims did 911

By leftist dictators are you referring to Putin? He is a far right and imperialist dictator that is everything that Chomsky despises. His association with Alekandr Dugin is enough to come to that conclusion.

His critiques of the conveyance of US hegemony, the promulgation of America empire as done so, and the mis-steos along the road to greatness and well as potential downfall if not self ruination are most prescient as BOTH lessons AND warnings. One must strive not to miss the key points,. which are more well researched and read into by Chomsky moreso than by virtually anymore else; but ALSO we must not fail to discern the spirit of the message, which is that of a true patriot and humanitarian. Miss that, amongst other tremendously important aspects, AND we risk losing out altogether - especially with regards to the worthiness of one of our greatest minds and a most prolific thinker researcher author speaker and intellect. So, let us not be TOO hasty, reductionist, nor sour. It pays NOT to reject simply because One doesn't like the sound or feeling of the message. Better to consider than to shut down the discourse, debate, and synthesis. At least, for the work, the effort, the analyses - Respect.

Understanding Linguistic is very important intellectually but political views is an attempt to end human suffering

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