From: jeffrey E. <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 2, 2015 3:05 PM To: Noam Chomsky Subject: Re: Re: im glad for you On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Noam Chomsky And I soon will. At American airlines= She's on her way back from Brazil. These are amazing capacities. Not sur= how well they are understood. From: jeffrey E. [mailto:[email protected] Sent: Sunday, August 02 2015 10:02 AM To: Noam Chomsky Subject: Re: Re: wrote: you can recognize valerias face in a crowd, and know its her voice immediately on the phone. I'm not su=e if analysis as opposed to shape recognition ( distance time function) fo= the face and fourier transform for voice. is rightly considered analysis and parsing. I don't think so on another note ,using your right eye and then your left try to focus for = moment on Valeria's right eye and then focus on her left.while =ou are talking to her, . see if you get different info. the expression "the eyes are the windows of the soul ", might be=wrong, it might only be one eye,:) On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Noam Chomsky w=ote: The idea of interpreting sensory syst=ms as involving both input and output, and hence presumably accessing a central system of competence (as distinct from the input-output performa=ce systems) is a very interesting one, particularly the hints about eyes. I don't see quite how it works, but worth pursuing and think=ng about. Very few people I can think of, but w=ll think more. EFTA_R1_01613407 EFTA02491392

What sensory systems provide to the b=ain is always interpreted by internal systems, memory included, and the sensory systems themselves carry out analysis. There =99s a good deal of detailed work on this, mainly for sound and vision. Turns out, for example, that chimp auditory system yields something ver= close to the physical features that enter into the phonological systems of human language, but lacking the internal interpret=tion, for the apes it's noise while for the newborn infant it =80 s language. From: Jeffrey E. [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, Au ust 01 2015 7:33 PM To: Noam Chomsky Subject: Re: Re: is a first step to get a group together of people th=t might add useful insights. . people you respect . though you=might disagree. maybe we pose the question to the group. re eyes, it seems that each sense should have both a transmitter and=receiver, . scent. smell., hearing voice. , touch moveme=t, sight -? I think the eyes transmit info. my work on placebo showed video did not work, no explanation, interrogators. use eyes to gauge truthfulness. ( But these are all cognitive interpretati=ns of the (internal) output of the visual system. , -- not sure what input=is not- a cognitive interpretation.? why I like the musk work is that our brain must first deconstruct the chords. Fourier transform , or something like, it. then have a m=mory to know whether the next two or three notes follow grammatically from=the past few. On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 6:30 PM, Noam Chomsky w=ote: Been on the road all day from the Cap= to Cambridge. Along with every other car in Mass. Glad you liked the paper. Since=Leonard Bernstein's Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard about 40 years ago there has been interesting work seeking structural similariti=s between language and at least some musical traditions, mostly western to=al. You might want to have a look. One of those doing the best=work is my colleague David Pesetsky, a fine linguist and excellent musician. You're right that "re=ding the eyes" is a complex and fascinating topic, even extrapolat=ng gaze, the way infants do but probably not other animals. And famously, staring=into someone's eyes is far from neutral: either serious threat or =eal intimacy. But these are all cognitive interpretations of the (in=ernal) output of the visual system. It could be argued that the computati=ns involved in determining what we see are a central system, not just part of a processing system. Hard to see how to pose that a= a real empirical issue that can be tested. 2 EFTA_R1_01613408 EFTA02491393