Noam Chomsky: Language is the Basis of Reason and Creativity
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- Опубликовано: 5 дек 2019
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Noam Chomsky is one of the greatest minds of our time and is one of the most cited scholars in history. He is a linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. He has spent over 60 years at MIT and recently also joined the University of Arizona.
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Even without video this is still easily more valuable and interesting than 99% of podcasts out there. Thank you for uploading despite the technical mishap.
Super awesome!
It’s impossible for language to be at the CORE of cognitive capacity, because language cannot drive itself. It however is a tool to abstract most of reality, similar to math.
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I disagree with Chomsky here. Language is a system of concrete symbols (vocal, other body language; and eventually for humans, graphic). Words themselves have no inherent meaning. The ideas they communicate exist entirely in the mind. But yes - imo words are also used as tools to greatly facilitate thought. Other species are obviously to varying degrees "logical", while having only nonverbal communication. .
@0.28 Does anybody know on what basis language is like an (internal) genetic endowment?
My understanding is that our genes are responsible for how our brain is structured and wired. It is this human way of wiring the brain that comes with human capacities like language and insect ways of wiring the brain comes with insect capabilities, like how insects do vision in a way humans don’t.
@@mattias14142 That is correct
@@mattias14142 Thanks. This (innate) human genetic wiring and a free/independent cognitive capacity. I am hearing Chomsky as asserting both. What say you?
@@kishansingh3039 How our genotype gives rise to a brain with cognitive capacites that are free, independant and in some respects infinite (as Chomsky claims our language capacity is) is surely one of the greatest mysteries of brain science. I think that in Chomsky's view, our minds must have a rich genetic endowment which allows our minds to have infinite language capacities. Empty minds don't achieve much.
@@mattias14142 It would follow that one must shape their body ie. brain pathways so that the infinite capacity of mind could be realized. I wonder if and how this mystery could ever be put to rest?
Of course Chomsky assumes language to be the most important faculty of the human mind and giving rise to intelligence, him being a language scientist. Does not mean that its true. Complex language is one ability that evolved later, even after toolmaking.
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I disagree with Chomsky here. Language is a system of concrete symbols (vocal, other body language; and eventually for humans, graphic). Words themselves have no inherent meaning. The ideas they communicate exist entirely in the mind. But yes - imo words are also used as tools to greatly facilitate thought. Other species are obviously to varying degrees "logical", while having only nonverbal communication. .
Even without video this is still easily more valuable and interesting than 99% of podcasts out there. Thank you for uploading despite the technical mishap.