From: jeffrey E. <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 6:40 PM To: Noam Chomsky Subject: Re: Re: i will get you a response on israel. / 2. what does amaze you? interest you? . 3/ w= could put together some chomsky questions for posterity, like=hillberts , fermats etc. I am willing to fund a prize for solu=ions, Anonymously if you prefer... I need to keep up your fun quot=ent. On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Noam Chomsky «= href="mailto target="_blank" =/span> wrote: Forty years ago, Israel was one of th= most admired countries in the world. Now it is most disliked. =Forty years ago it was pretty clear, as I wrote at the time (and I was far from alone), that those who call themselves "s=pporters of Israel" are in fact supporters of its moral degenerati=n, international isolation, constant conflict and security problems, and m=ybe worse. So it has occurred. Israel even now has an official whose task is to deal with international isolation.=u> Israelis like to attribute all this to anti-Semitism, which hasn't =hanged in the past 40 years. Or to appeal to "we have no neg=tiating partner," which won't wash. The problem is n=t Netanyahu. The policies and problems are much deeper. The cr=cial question is how long and how far will Israel proceed on the course to self-destruct=on. A lot of work in AI, neural network t=eory, "Big Data and statistics," etc., is as you describe =E2 mimicking behavior (which I don't even find amazing or pa=ticularly interesting). But I think you underestimate the theoretical insights=and explanations, such as the few I mentioned in the papers I sent, the th=ories that yield explanations for such surprising phenomena as rigidity an= structure-dependence, with their far-reaching consequences. Those I think are the kinds of results that are rarely=found outside the hard sciences. They don't mimic behavior, rut explain fundamental properties of cognitive processes that enter into b=havior, of course indirectly. And there's a lot more like it. From: jeffrey E. [mailto:[email protected]) Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 6:43 AM To: Noam Chomsky Subject: Re: Re: 1.do you have any specific questions for him? he thinks its not going in the right direction. ie. bibi, not strong enough to make tough decisions. . ehud trusts hamas more than abbas. I know you dont like telephone= but we could set up a text exchange if you wanted to. EFTA_R1_01620936 EFTA02496453

2. more important I use my coin flip analogy often. ie. . single cell=experiments, like looking through a microscope at my coin , measure =ts content it moment, its shape , all trying to figure out why=the result after a long while is always the same -equal number=of tails and heads. a consistent result. no algorithm , no=computation . Why i am pushing you on this , is that i f=rmly believe that language needs a theory, cognitive sci=nce needs a theory, your minions and intellectual offspring are like bio engineers --they will be able to mimic some of the behavior , =es it is amazing but not interesting. you have thought long an= hard and more importantly have seen what does NOT work. einsteins t=ought experiments led to truly remarkable results in physics. Im hoping that results like that can be achieved for biology=/p> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 11:05 PM, Noam Chomsky cc= href="mailto: target="_blank"> >=wrote: Have a good weekend. I wonder what he=thinks about where the state is heading now. We'll probably be at the Cape= in Wellfleet, if we can make it. Maybe there are miracles, but I think=more prosaic approaches yield rich results in domains like vision (Marr's main concern) and language. Like some of those I =80 ye mentioned. I don't see how to progress in other ways= From: jeffrey E. [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 10:20 PM To: Noam Chomsky Subject: Re: Re: 1 you are a treat and=l very much appreciate your non finance views.): 2 ehud barak will b= with me for the weekend in ny. not sure where you are? Marr, , -try, probabilty, , symmetry. ent=opy. it might look like computation but it is not. it mi=ht look like algorithm but it is not. the flip of a coin does not co=pute, have an algorithm or a mechanism. though it might look as if it does. it is not an input system, there is not mechanism drivning the heads an= tails towards equal numbers. , there is not nature looking to see what th= previous results were and computing the next result. like your ug it is more of a miracle. On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 9:54 PM, Noam Chomsky c » =rote: 2 EFTA_R1_01620937 EFTA02496454