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son savants timothy leary monday september 19 2016 decoding chomsky by chris knight noam chomsky has often discussed plato s problem which he obviously finds fascinating the problem is this how can people know so much given a relative poverty of stimuli just today you found yourself talking to someone and the words just flowed out of you you didn t have to think about them beforehand you probably never uttered some of those sentences before in the exact way we all take this for granted easily plato wondered about it and surmised that the reason we are able to know so much is because we already knew it in a previous life you just talk to each other and knowledge sorta miraculously emerges via a quasi midwifery or rather our forebears knew things and passed this ability to know best example apprehending our native language so easily on to us in a sense we already know everything but we need it drawn out by some process today people talk about genes chomsky takes plato s soul and changes it to something like biological language acquisition device but you already knew that see what i did there but this plato problem still seems iffy to me chomsky has often written about orwell s problem too how can people not know so many things that truly impact their lives when the information is basically right in front of them noam has offered a solution to why this problem exists in books such as his famous one from 1988 co written with edward herman manufacturing consent the political economy of the mass media very sophisticated propaganda tools have been developed during the 20th century suffice to write for now chris knight radical british anthropologist studied chomsky s works for over two decades in the 1970s an intellectual proposed there s a chomsky problem which is this how can one man write a massive body of work on linguistics while never mentioning the social world or politics in those books while at the same time issuing scads of books critical of his own country s foreign and domestic policies in chomsky s political books the mention of science much less linguistics is basically zero the writer who as far as i know coined the chomsky problem thought noam s linguistic work was brilliant his political writings were iirc naive for at least 20 years i ve wondered about the chomsky problem but as i read more and more i came to the opposite conclusion i thought chomsky s linguistics were preposterous while his criticism of the official lies of the state department and much much much more were astonishingly acute i read books from the right about chomsky that were mostly ad hominem character assassinations i ve read far too many books by academics on his linguistics that see his grammar models as genius of course the worldwide left love his political books there are at least five intellectuals who seem to have made their careers out of explaining collecting and championing chomsky s oeuvre george lakoff is one cognitive neurolinguist whose work makes a hell of a lot of sense to me and he seems to despise chomsky chomsky seems to despise lakoff see randy allen harris s the linguistics wars on this and i understand harris has an update in the works chomsky answers lakoff s barbs by saying lakoff doesn t understand his work but lakoff was one of the early bright followers of chomsky s linguistics models only to break with him radically when it became apparent chomsky s linguistics would never be able to account for semantics by which i mean meaning in language and lakoff who has amassed quite a large body of scholarship himself has barely had anything to say about noam s politics lakoff is definitely a liberal of some sort so social anthropologist chris knight wiki has almost miraculously solved the chomsky problem i ve been trying to solve it for 20 years i now feel the euphoria that one of us has solved it my many blogspews here as the overweening generalist on my own attempts to solve the chomsky problem now seem horribly unsophisticated and so it goes decoding chomsky science and revolutionary politics recently released is an astonishingly well written and researched volume that will probably be the most important work in the history of ideas post world war ii that you ll read for quite some time and i say this if only out of chomsky s massive influence knight has made a stellar contribution to the sociology of knowledge the sociology of intellectuals 1945 now and has explicated lucidly a new and dynamite version of how the cognitive revolution arose knight has apparently spent the past 20 years researching this book and has managed to boil it all down to 240 pages plus endnotes a massive bibliography and index in an interview he mentioned that he d finished a work in his field of anthropology and hadn t really covered the origin of language in humans because he felt he didn t know enough about the subject knowing chomsky was mr linguistics having virtually single handedly made it into a science and moving linguistics from the anthropology department into the new cognitive science labs at your nearby big university he read chomsky s linguistics in order to understand and he ran into what i ran into it s a cold abstract to a painful degree literally meaningless an unworkable series of models that get this by definition has nothing to do with humans communicating with each other chris knight says he admires chomsky s political work and there s no reason not to believe him he clearly admires chomsky s scholarship and courage in this regard as do i at times knight s said there are a lot of conscientious academics and intellectuals who have criticized the us as imperial power but no one really even comes close to chomsky that said noam chomsky whose linguistic models are finally seeming to be exposed as going nowhere anyone who has tried to follow chomsky s many models of cartesian linguistics aka masochists and thought to themselves either i m an idiot or this is a put on or possibly massive fraud that was me at one point will know what i m referring to phrase structure rules transformational rules grammar deep structure the nature of the language organ the minimalist program universal grammar and merge all scientistic all going nowhere basically knight runs all these down pp 173 179 so wait a minute what how can noam write about lies and propaganda which are by definition language and signs and symbols and social work among human beings while his linguistics work has nothing to do with our social being because of an admitted schizophrenic life chomsky admits he must lead because since the 1950s he s worked in the very place that the pentagon has funneled enormous sums of research money into mit perhaps because his quasi kabbalistic linguistics allowed him that ivory tower opiate he needed to deal with the cognitive dissonance if so if this is anywheres near a close view of chomsky then it s dramatic and strange to the nth degree no chomsky once wrote an article on the fall of barcelona in the spanish civil war he greatly admired the anarchists he had just turned 10 years old he decided he d rejected trotskyism by age 12 this is an interesting fellow eh noam had friends help him land the job at mit where he was able to work on the pentagon s new idea that computers and cybernetics and information theory would help make the world safe for capitalism after wwii the idea that there s a language acquisition device a very sophisticated computer inside every human being s head very appealing to pentagon folk this was a computer whose source code must be cracked and chomsky s work looked like it was moving in exactly the direction they wanted maybe we can develop a computer that can translate any language into english that should help in the cold war effort against the godless commies let s let chomsky lead a disembodied cognitive revolution and he did but noam didn t want to do any intellectual work that would help kill people in the name of omnicorp here s where adept conspiracy theorists can take this book and run with it did chomsky hijack linguistics and purposefully make it useless neither knight nor i believe this to be true chomsky seems to genuinely have ideas which seem bizarre and fruitless to me about a sort of purity of work in science there s one of william james s lectures on pragmatism from the early 20th century in which james talks about two vastly different temperaments among thinkers the tough minded and the tender minded somehow chomsky is the apex of tough minded when doing his political work while his linguistics is the very apogee of the tender minded his persona as a man of conscience and political integrity seems to have been a perfect match for the pentagon see the top man in cognitive science is free to write his books give talks criticizing the pentagon all over the world because we re a free society but how does chomsky manage this cognitive dissonance does he feel it what have been the unintended consequences of chomsky s total oeuvre knight answers these questions to my satisfaction to those of you who ve heard or read that chomsky defended a holocaust denier named robert faurisson was is friends with former cia director john deutsch and went against virtually the entire faculty and student body at mit in defending walt rostow in getting his job back at mit even though rostow has been nailed overwhelmingly in chomsky s books on vietnam knight satisfactorily answers these queries too as an anthropologist knight treats the heavily funded by pentagon cognitive scientists as a tribe why did this particular form of nonsense catch on so wildly in postwar unistat knight gives a fascinating answer if the only other superpower seemed to run on ideas based in matter dialectical materialism then what if we do away with matter and to a large extent they did information data is weightless travels at the speed of light matter is secondary so is the body along the way you ll learn about the deep roots of sociobiology and a form of scientific feminism that needs to come back from being beaten down by anti science leftists in academia how a russian futurist surrealist from the first two decades of the 20th century influenced chomsky without chomsky seeming to know about it and much more if you had to ask me what was the overall value of chomsky s linguistic work at mit i d say it was don t study language using this approach language is and has no doubt always been a deeply social thing if you re interested in politics philosophy and the idea of science being an open and public and possibly ultimately unified thing decoding chomsky is for you if you re already a seasoned reader of chomsky i feel safe to say you ll learn a few new things from this book for me the book spoke to my interests in the origin of language of which chomsky s work is literally laughable and the fallout from the new and wonderfully interdisciplinary cognitive sciences knight let me on to some reasons i hadn t even considered about why my valuation of being a generalist has taken such a beating since the 1950s not long ago i wrote a piece about why i thought alfred korzybski s work had waned and knight fills in a lot of gaps there too i m interested in the history of structuralism the academy pr mass stupidity intellectuals embodied knowledge descartes plato newton galileo and bertrand russell the possible synthesizing of all knowledge why many people have the idea that science isn t for them the idea of theory and practice going hand in hand and the timeless notion that ideas have consequences and one clue to this is looking at the time and place and social situation in which ideas blast off and catch on so i loved this book my intellectual friends have already heard way too much about my problems with chomsky and i m only so lathered up over noam because i love him although i know it doesn t seem like it ya just hafta take my word og chris knight s website for further ideas about chomsky and mit here s an interview with chris knight in the journal radical anthropology from five or so years ago that gives a lot of the gist and pith of decoding chomsky it was this interview sent to me by sue howard that felt like a revelation here s a guy who seems to have maybe solved the chomsky problem if you have been taken by chomsky s ideas about language and want to remediate some suggestions the major transitions of evolution by john maynard smith and eors szathmary adam s tongue by derek bickerton cultural origins of human cognition by michael tomasello philosophy in the flesh the embodied mind and its challenge to western thought by george lakoff and mark johnson from molecule to metaphor by jerome feldman mothers and others the evolutionary origins of mutual understanding by sarah hrdy the way we think by mark turner and gilles fauconnier here s something many of us are looking forward to 7000 universes how the languages we speak shape the way we think by the stellar lera boroditsky gotta wait till 2018 though if you re way too busy and don t think you can get to reading decoding chomsky soon here is a pretty damned good podcast interview of chris knight about chomsky by the thoughtful and erudite publisher and science fiction writer douglas lain post scriptum after writing about the two chomskys in light of william james s ideas of the tough minded and tender minded i remembered i blogged on it four years ago psychedelische grafik von bob campbell posted by michael at 11 27 pm 8 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels anarchism anthropology chomsky problem chris knight cognitive science intellectuals karl marx neurolinguistics noam chomsky sociobiology sociology of knowledge william james wednesday september 14 2016 surveillance in unistat pre snowden file 23a life is either a great adventure or it is nothing see below a case can be made that secrecy is for losers for people who don t know how important information really is the soviet union realized this too late openness is now a singular and singularly american advantage we put it in peril by poking along in an age now past it is time to dismantle government secrecy this most pervasive of all cold war regulations it is time to begin building the supports for the era of openness that is already upon us daniel patrick moynihan in his 1998 book secrecy the american experience p 227 moynihan the intellectual in the senate published 10 books before going to congress vacillated from neoliberal to neocon you figure it out meanwhile after the berlin wall came down the intellectuals i was reading kicked out of academia or were never part of it or noam chomsky as special case were mostly predicting islamic terrorism as what the pentagon would need in order to keep their rotten show on the road none of these writers i was reading were allowed on tv so for most unistatians this idea didn t exist kathryn olmsted history professor at university of california davis who...
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