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From: jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2016 4:14 AM
To: Noam Chomsky
Subject: Re:
You had the power to move the furniture she had the power to tell you when =nd where :)
It's your term as I see it Chomsky vs t=e dubes
Living systems need energy hence th=y FEED . Plants vegetables all try to protect themselves . =AO Skin poisons , etc. I
believe the best benefit to cost ratio =A0relies on Deception And to know the mind of the predator or prey = language
is the tool . It allows a shared understanding of mental o=jects , mental states and mental actions .
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On Thursday, 11 August 2016, Noam Chomsky & mailto > wrote=
Great t=rm. Can I plagiarize it?
I guess one could say that a I=on and a gazelle have competing powers, but it somehow seems misleading.=C2
All living systems? How about Valeria and I furnishing our apa=tment together (I became an expert on rugs)? Or Morris
and I writing=a book together?
Interestingly, I finished off the brisket an= pretty much the corned beef but am saving the pastrami. Great
musta=d and bread too. The only problem is that the dog goes berserk unles= I give her little pieces. Must have Jewish
genes.
On Thu, Aug 11, 201= at 9:53 PM, jeffrey E. <jee=acation@gmail.com
<javascript:_e(%7B=7D,'cvml','jeevacation@gmail.com');> wrote:
= will now credit you with the derivation. Do a new term. - Dubes =AO Data usage based enthusiasts
On Thur=day, Au msky
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E=ery act is is power in some small way. But the sense relevant to tho=e who write about power
Morgenthau, Russell, etc. -- is coercive power.=C2 Like my telling my dog right now that I can't play with her.
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How about putting an animal with a human auditory and visual syste= in the same room as a
human infant -- a chimp for example. And see =f it can learn speech or sign the way the infant does. Acquisition o=
speech and sign are remarkably similar. And we know that even with =uge training efforts, which the infant doesn't
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need at all, results fo= the chimp will be zero. But interestingly, the facts as usual have =o interest to the data-
processing usage-based enthusiasts.
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On Thu, Aug 11, 2=16 at 8:48 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com<A» wrote:
Even if far it could=act as a North Star . , power has many properties those might =e
some . Is the ability to care for many Power? Is the abilit= to find new medicines power .
How about a chall=nge that says put a thing in a room and see if can learn a language .?
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On Thursday, August 11, 2016, Noam Chomsk wrote:
Thinking about it. Keep realizing that I'm not Hilb=rt, and linguistics isn't 20th
century math. The exciting proble=s I can think of are either too far from current understanding, or too the=ry-internal
for the general significance to be easily perceived.
</7-iv>Meanwhile, ran across a nice definition of "power," thinking =bout an
earlier letter that you may have forgotten. From Hans Morgen=hau: Power in the international context is "that untamed
and barbaric=force which finds its laws in nothing but its own strength and its sole ju=tifi cation in its own
aggrandizement."
On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 8:50 AM, je=frey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrot=:
five questions =n language. the chomsky challenge. . =C2 50k in prizes. ?
use the internet to reach the bri=htest minds ? why not?
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