Manuel DeLanda. Materialism, Experience and Philosophy. 2008 4/12

[ThewildRageofGordon]

He seems to commit the same error Chomsky did (with syntax): he takes the current human genetic state (his own) and uses it as a base (also, actual 'ontic--comportments' are 'normal' [like our current state] not weird as with hallucinatory 'trips': they are 'destinations') ; one should consider that genetic mutation and 'flipped switches' make changes fast, especially in the small populations of 50-70k years ago.

[InfectedDaemon]

He starts to describe many aspects of Neurology and neurophysiology that I doubt he really, fully understands.

He completely misunderstands delirium for one, he says some memory is stored in Brocca's area (that only controls speech emission, and is similar to a motor area), he underscores short and long-term memory... but this isn't unique to him. All philosophers without a neuroscience back ground do this.

[christopheclugston]

He is also lax on hard data linguistic research. This is the sort of soft side and meta side to what now has become very hard sicence--brain tracing, wiring etc has given very specific data as has linguistic research on the socio anthro level

[christophercoltrane]

i wish that girl wouldnt laugh so much