File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1997/97-01-27.165, message 31


From: AERIALEDGE-AT-aol.com
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 15:16:02 -0500
Subject: Re: thinking outside of language


>>>The problem here is this definition of language
>>
>>Recently heard a Chomsky lecture in which he speculated:
>>"We cannot dismiss the possibility that a future science of mind may
dispense
>>with the concept 'language' altogether."
>>
>Two things are being confused here, the first is perception and cognition,
>the second is thought and representation. The problem is not how one
>defines language but which functions of are its domain.

Personally, I was not "confused here." Simply siting what I found to be an
interesting statement-- seems to me Chomsky may be pointing to the
possibility of a science beyond dichotomies such as perception/cognition &
thought/representation-- one can begin to see it coming. I haven't yet found
anything that goes beyond the metaphorical in attempting to apply nonlinear
dynamics to thought processes. The intuition is there-- or re Deleuze the
concept is being/has been created, but the stuff, the _hard science_ --
where's that? Not to say there's none but seems pretty clear it's just begun.

--Rod Smith



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