Professor Noam Chomsky - April 8, 2011

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The Andrew Brook Distinguished Lecture Series presents: Language and the Cognitive Science Revolution(s)

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[BigMikeMcBastard]

7:18

[geniemist]

too bad he can't live for 1000 years....imagine the knowledge he would posses

[borjon23]

@rochha A shrewd argument, compellingly made.

[Incognitoification1]

@geniemist Learn from Chomsky and strive to takes his place.

We need more intellectuals who are unwilling to become regurgitating parrots for bourgeoisie and their interests, we need more radical intellectuals.

[ariekanibalie]

@ehudnold9 one thing's for sure, and that's 'this jew' won't make YOU a more proficient writer. I've heard it said that, in order for the gentiles to recognize you as an 'intellectual messiah', it helps to be able to spell properly...

[pneudmatic]

@Diosukekun I think that he actually misspoke and meant to say "Are eagles that fly swim". He's talking about the structural distance between the auxiliary 'are' and 'swim'. He likes to point out that language users don't have trouble keeping track of the connection between 'are' and 'swimming' even in convoluted sentences like 'Are eagles that fly over the Pacific while they hunt for fish in the... (and on and on) swimming?' This is the only way it makes sense to me.

[tarnopol]

Q&A starts at 1:10:00.

[rochha]

all you people are brainwashed that think chomsky is special, you would follow hitler if you were were around in 1930's

[gunnerfan87]

Chomsky is a walking encyclopedia.

[Diosukekun]

55:00 i never really got that "are eagles that fly swimming?" thing. it asks the question whether all eagles that fly in general are swimming right now. i see nothing wrong with that. stuff like "can eagles that are flying swim?" etc also seems to work fine for me.