Language: The Cognitive Revolution - Noam Chomsky

Professor Noam Chomsky delivers the 20th annual James R. Killian, Jr. Faculty Achievement Award and Lecture, titled "Language: the Cognitive Revolutions," on April 8, 1992. The Killian Award was established in 1971 to recognize extraordinary professional accomplishments by full-time members of the MIT faculty. A faculty committee chooses the recipient from candidates nominated by their peers for outstanding contributions to their fields, to MIT and to society.

[joshuaevett]

What's shocking to me is you can watch every interview, talk, etc., he has ever given and he never gets a word wrong or mangles his syntax, while discussing cutting edge linguistic science, philosophy, history, you name it. Remarkable.

[ganeshb]

Whether languages are learnable or not is an empirical matter to discover. Languages are not usable to a large extent. Thunderous clapping, what a wonderful lecture by MIT prof.

[sadhanaidu]

Total amazement of scholarly outflow.. limitless it is.

[fabiengerard]

Best teacher ever… True humanist mind.

[melodyjang]

Transcript of this talk would be such a treasure.

[constancewalsh]

Give me the elder, the old, the old-old senex who is Noam Chompsky. This young guy's genius is convoluted, intellectual,
saturated with words and ideas. Chompsky-the-elder has dropped all that and become understandable to any
intelligence. I love how Nature has done its work with him, down to the bare bones. And so I return to the later talks.

[khaldounkhader]

God bless the benevolent knowledge and its champions and knights.

[ashrafjehangirqazi]

Eqbal Ahmad admiringly complained that Chomsky is so relentlessly right in his arguments that having a discussion with him is reduced to agreeing with him.

[ragemsaid]

Rare human. Great scholar of the century’

[atheoma]

what a lecture wow! thanks for sharing

[zeinebbehim]

So thankful for grasping some insights from such a great man!

[englishplusacademy]

Very nice! Thanks to the channel for such an event.

[bryanl.morrison]

I'm very new to his work as a linguist, having only been exposed to his perspectives on politics and history (which I don't particularly agree with.)

I am utterly stunned and impressed.

[ivannegri]

The word house is a fantastically complex concept, involving abstract ideas of exterior and interior and an observers physiceal relation to those two states. A
Some autistic people have singular visual representations of the category house, so if they imagine what houses look like they don't have a variety of possible exterior design structures to choose for internal representation, but rather a single house exemplar image. The cog. normative brain makes this same conceptual operation if you ask the normal person to visualize home; I find this interesting.

[grandmasterhiram]

I'd say, normally, technology works 80% in favor of the skilled, whom are also the good, let's face it... Until money comes in, and it's 80% on them's favor. We need people of integrity.

[theinspector]

As long as there's no Theory of Everything we're just speculating on the properties of the brain and of the mind.

[itssanti]

Descartes didnt make it to the top ten...
That's astonishing

[doreekaplan]

So much better visual without his current over long grey frizzled hair on his face. Hes a nice looking man. I can listen without watching the later ones. Appreciate all these talks and interviews with him. Thanksalot

[nyworker]

I like Terence Deacon's ideas of absences. Linguistic expression and meanings are just as much about what is said vs what is not said in an expression.

[nyworker]

At 1:14:30 Noam was having a language processing problem interfacing with the external environment. Somehow his brain figured it.
Actually computer higher languages mimic brain processing by operations like pointers which are efficiancy tools.