Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 00:30:19 -0400
From: ostrow-AT-is2.nyu.edu (Ostrow/Kaneda)
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.

First I di not state you where confused but that what two different aspects
of thought were being confused. Beyond this point I did not propose that
perception/cognition and thought/representation constituted dichotomies but
alternating modes or systems of thought.  Science outside of the realm of
its  popular representation has not functioned solely within cartesian
terms since the advent of Quantum Theory.  As to the future science of the
mind I would suggest that Patricia Smith Churchland in her book
Neurophilosophy first published in 1986 proposes the possibility of a
unified cognitive neurobiology  that constitutes a interdisciplinary field.





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