Thank you Chomsky's Philosophy, thank you...I'm so glad you uploaded this and all other videos, this is pure public free awesome education. Thank you so much.
Although we cannot fly because of the constraints imposed by our genetic program, we can form sentences like "The man flies" or phrases like "flying men" and hence create fantastic stories like "Peter Pan". I think our creativity mainly comes from such linguistic processes, which lead to new concepts.
I wish I could see Chomsky actually have a conversation with someone else where he appears to be listening and asking the other person something. I feel like he might almost be incapable of such a thing, or maybe it's just because I've seen 10,000 videos of him being interviewed - but he also doesn't seem like someone who would listen.
I don't buy this at all. We find new ideas and new ways of communication all the time. We have whole dictionaries of new vocabulary words to describe all sorts of concepts and ideas and physical things that didn't even exist just 50 years ago. If you had said "dongle" 50 years ago at a grocery store in a "good christian community", all the mothers would have placed their hands over their children's ears and gasped. It takes a special kind of person to push thought and expression to come up with new things, but it does happen. Most people are happy just to work with what they are given, but there are always pioneers among us.
His point is that the ability of humans to pioneer is in itself not a result of natural selection but maybe a consequence of something else that is. For example, brain size.
you may indeed find new ways of communicating but the apparatus by which this is possible (the language and communication faculties of the brain) is unchanging, it is given by thousands of millions of years of evolution
Hi, thanks for all the Chomsky uploads. This is a long-shot but I wonder if you have come across Chomsky discussing the Molyneux Problem: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molyneux%27s_problem I am sure I have heard him years ago discussing it in an interview but I cannot find it. Any ideas>
I have yet found 2 things that I disagree with Chomsky, free will and some details about human evolution, and that I know I'm right with a very high degree of certainty, and 100% sure about free will :)
Thank you Chomsky's Philosophy, thank you...I'm so glad you uploaded this and all other videos, this is pure public free awesome education. Thank you so much.
+Daemn27 Thanks for watching :-)
Although we cannot fly because of the constraints imposed by our genetic program, we can form sentences like "The man flies" or phrases like "flying men" and hence create fantastic stories like "Peter Pan". I think our creativity mainly comes from such linguistic processes, which lead to new concepts.
I can fly, no limits
We entered a creative bloat after consumerism led our creativity
Genius! Thanks :D I want to translate more of your videos to spanish
A noble pursuit
Are we preprogrommed to be creative? Are we preprogrammed not to be mere reflection of our environment?
Summary: Chomsky said they we are meant to shit standing up
This gets deep
3.26 Environment Chomsky, the environment...
"The environment" isn't a scientific theory.
Can someone explain to me why it is, for Chomsky, that if we were this “plastic” that we would be impoverished, and far less creative?
I think he's suggesting that we would just reflect our environment. I would think that every ability that we have would come with its own baggage.
I wish I could see Chomsky actually have a conversation with someone else where he appears to be listening and asking the other person something. I feel like he might almost be incapable of such a thing, or maybe it's just because I've seen 10,000 videos of him being interviewed - but he also doesn't seem like someone who would listen.
You don't think Chomsky actually listens to questions put to him?
bh617 he's one of the most renowned and cited educators and experts in the world. Of course he's being interviewed as frequently as he has.
gm679 I was going to make the same comment. He seemed pretty curious about the inner workings of the European financial system.
I don't buy this at all. We find new ideas and new ways of communication all the time. We have whole dictionaries of new vocabulary words to describe all sorts of concepts and ideas and physical things that didn't even exist just 50 years ago. If you had said "dongle" 50 years ago at a grocery store in a "good christian community", all the mothers would have placed their hands over their children's ears and gasped. It takes a special kind of person to push thought and expression to come up with new things, but it does happen. Most people are happy just to work with what they are given, but there are always pioneers among us.
His point is that the ability of humans to pioneer is in itself not a result of natural selection but maybe a consequence of something else that is. For example, brain size.
you may indeed find new ways of communicating but the apparatus by which this is possible (the language and communication faculties of the brain) is unchanging, it is given by thousands of millions of years of evolution
Hi, thanks for all the Chomsky uploads. This is a long-shot but I wonder if you have come across Chomsky discussing the Molyneux Problem: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molyneux%27s_problem I am sure I have heard him years ago discussing it in an interview but I cannot find it. Any ideas>
I have yet found 2 things that I disagree with Chomsky, free will and some details about human evolution, and that I know I'm right with a very high degree of certainty, and 100% sure about free will :)
what is your interpretation of free will?
Chomsky dosent agree against free will here, his arguments are perfectly compatible with the argument of free will.