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 --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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