#dr. noam chomsky

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Noam Chomsky on Artificial Intelligence: "The human mind is not, like ChatGPT and its ilk, a lumbering statistical engine for pattern matching, gorging on hundreds of terabytes of data and extrapolating the most likely conversational response or most probable answer to a scientific question. On the contrary, the human mind is a surprisingly efficient and even elegant system that operates with small amounts of information; it seeks not to infer brute correlations among data points but to create explanations..." "... Let's stop calling it "Artificial Intelligence" then and call it for what it is and makes "plagiarism software" because "It doesn't create anything, but copies existing works, of existing artists, modifying them enough to escape copyright laws...."

~ Dr. Noam Chomsky, Dr. Ian Roberts, Dr. Jeffrey Watumull

New York Times, March 8 2023

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🙏🏽 … REST IN POWER!! … 🙏🏽

“Avram Noam Chomsky (December 7, 1928 - June 18, 2024) was an American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism.

Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky was also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science.

He was a laureate professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona and an institute professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).”

@hrexach

[beenasarwar]

What I've learned from Noam Chomsky

As news of Noam Chomsky’s failing health makes the rounds, a journalist and peace activist from Pakistan shares some of her learnings from interactions with a trailblazing public intellectual whose moral compass has impacted the world. By Beena Sarwar I once asked Noam Chomsky how he manages to remember so many facts and figures and hold audience attention. He replied that he didn’t convey any…

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no one will convince me that we as linguists don't just pretend to take noam chomsky seriously because he's still alive and nobody wants the headache. him and his fucking 'language is meant to support thinking and not to communicate' ass. him and his fucking gigachad grammar. I'm sick of hearing about him. I want to hear about literally anyone else (but NOT william labov. I don't wanna hear about his ass either)

this is what noam thinks. this is what's going on in his head. this is the set of parameters he was born with or whatever. he is portraying himself as the chad because he's coping with the fact that he's been dumb and wrong since the 60s. most of the field of linguistics today sprung out of the necessity to tell him how dumb and wrong he was.

"oohoohoo grammar is innate" you know what else is innate noam, you crusty motherfucker? my foot in your ass. balls. fucking balls, dr. chomsky.

disclaimer: I know I'm being reductive. do not come on this post and tell me I'm being reductive because I know good and well that that is what I am doing. avram noam chomsky does not need you to come on this post and suck his toes because some master's student called him a dipshit. I promise and guarantee you that he does not. if somebody tries to defend noam chomsky's gigachad grammar to me I will lure you into the basement with the promise of a rare unpublished chomsky manuscript from 1969 and cask of amontillado your ass right next to the little compartment where I keep my old bedframe.

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Free audiobooks about Palestine on Hoopla Digital

Hoopla is a digital media platform available for free through participating public libraries in the USA, Canada, Australia, and Aotearoa New Zealand. Through Hoopla, you can check out ebooks, audiobooks, comics, manga, music, movies, and TV. Once again, this service is free to use on your phone, PC, tablet, and other devices.

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine by Noura Erakat

Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History by Nur ad-Din Masalha

The Ethnic Cleansing Of Palestine and The Biggest Prison on Earth by Ilan Pappé

Palestinian Walks by Raja Shehadeh

I Shall Not Hate by Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish

On Palestine by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé

More resources:

Australia, Canada, UK, USA: Contact your representative, demand ceasefire

Palestine masterlist by @palipunk

Google Drive collection and masterpost of informational and educational resources about Palestine by @hussyknee

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Antisemitism is evil

Genocide against the Palestinians is evil

If you disagree with either of these, please leave my page

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Further Reading:

Yes it’s a Genocide

TL;DR: there are many classifications of genocide, and one of such classifications is ethnic cleansing. Israeli military and government forces claim they are doing a Nakba 2. The first Nakba is the definition of ethnic cleansing, by UN definitions, which is a form of genocide. Israel has admitted that they are committing genocide.

No criticizing Israel is not antisemitic

TL;DR: if criticism of Israel or being pro Palestinian equates being antisemitic, then here is a list of raging antisemites (direct quotes included): Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton, Nelson Mandela, Albert Einstein (is Jewish), Stephen Hawking, Frida Kahlo (is Jewish), Noam Chomsky (is Jewish), DJ KHALED, Muhammad Ali, Jimmy Carter, Ben and Jerry (the ice cream people), Bernie Sanders (is Jewish), and Susan Sarandon.

Why Israel hates Palestinians (and why it’s unjustified)

TL;DR: Early post Zionist radical philosophy was to get back at the Germans and kill 6 million Germans senselessly for their systemic murder of Jews. This was rejected by Israel, but this thought process and reaction to historic European antisemitism was channelled into mistreatment of Palestinians. Europe is to blame yet Palestinians are the ones suffering,

I am very well read

TL;DR: Someone called be a slur and told me to pick up a book, I responded with a list of books which I read, a good chunk of which are from pro Israel Zionists and anti Israel Jewish and Palestinian academics

Antisemitism Post #1

TL;DR: a critique of white leftists who thing all Jewish people must categorize themselves as “good Jew” or “bad Jew”. Ethnonationalism like Zionism is dangerous but so is bigotry such as antisemitism. I also use my personal story of hating Belgians.

Antisemitism Post #2

TL;DR: if you replace “Israeli” with any other ethnicity or nationality and it’s bigoted, then your statement is antisemitic. If your statement isn’t bigoted and a rightful criticism of government or military positions and actions, it’s not antisemitic. It’s not antisemitic to criticize a genocide.

Patriotism vs Nationalism vs Jingoism

TL;DR: A Patriot loves their country, she celebrates when it does right and criticizes it when it does wrong. A Nationalist loves their country, she celebrates it when it does right and ignores when it does wrong. A Jingoist loves their country (or at least a specific version of it), celebrates when it is right and when it is wrong, because their country is unable to do wrong in their eyes. Everything can be justified.

Antisemitism Post #3

TL;DR: the Jews don’t control Hollywood.

Rebutting the “It’s Complicated” Claim

TL;DR: it’s not complicated, it’s apartheid

Antisemitism Post #4

TL;DR: Israel is Antisemitic, non Ashkenazi Jews frequently face discrimination, especially in Netanyahu’s Israel, but it’s always been this way with Yiddish language bans, forced sterilization of Ethiopian Jews, and European supremacy in all corners of government

Extremism is Sometimes Justified

TL;DR: one person’s terrorist is another person’s freedom fighter, and if you claim all extremism is bad, you support European colonial control of Africa, Haiti, the USA, and so many other evil regimes.

Yes Israel is a Colonial Project

TL;DR: Direct sources from the founders of Zionism calling the creation of Israel a colonial project and referring to Palestinians as the indigenous peoples who are in the way

Continued:

In a few months more journalists have died in Gaza than in WW2.

Gaza: Israeli company plans luxury beach side Apartment on the ruins of Gaza

A Message from a Palestinian Friend

People who are not Israeli or Palestinian are allowed to engage in discourse on this issue, especially Americans

Goat Jewish Boi Slays

The Post that Blew Up

Debunking idiotic Israeli arguments

Where’d you Come From, Where’d you Go

USA is the most diverse country on earth

Direct quote from an Israeli cabinet minister calling this conflict a war on Gaza not a war on Hamas (what happened to the plot??)

I love Jewish men who love humanity

Israel doesn’t care about peace

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understanding US policy and coverage in the middle east, 20 years ago (and today)

if you wanna read a book isn't expressly theory but is def going to influence your understanding of american politics without being poorly written (i.e., hyper-academic) or boring, i suggest noam chomsky's "open media collection."

it's three parts that you can probably find separately: 1) "9-11," 2) "media control: the spectacular achievements of propaganda," and 3) "acts of aggression: policing 'rogue states.'"

"9-11" is a series of email interviews that chomsky completed in the month/month-and-a-half directly following 9/11. it's the longest section of the three and is a good time capsule for how both chomsky and the rest of the world reacted to the event. it sets up realistic and pragmatic measures that U.S. should take to respond to terrorism, tempered by understanding international law, responses to other terrorist attacks and the U.S.'s foreign policy.

"media control" was my favorite section. if you've tried to read "manufacturing consent" and found it to be a slog (which it kind of is), i would recommend this instead. it gets at the core of "manufacturing consent" but is a lot more digestible. although "media control" was initially published in 1991, my copy included a transcript of a 2002 talk chomsky gave at the Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting's 15th anniversary celebration, "the journalist from mars: how the 'war on terror' should be reported." highly recommend.

"acts of aggression" is the shortest section and focuses mainly on policy, rather than media coverage of such. like the other two, it points out american/western hypocrisy re: terrorism, particularly what we (the west) dub "rogue states."

TL;DR: Read "Open Media Collection" by Noam Chomsky to understand the Israeli genocide of Palestinians within the greater historical context of Western media coverage of American terrorism.

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“I don’t have a whole lot of choice,” said Dr. Anderson, a pediatrician for many poor families in Cherokee County, north of Atlanta. “We’ve decided as a society that it’s too expensive to modify the kid’s environment. So we have to modify the kid.” ― Noam Chomsky, Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power

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Noam Chomsky, Chris Hedges & Dr. Shir Hever on Israel & Palestine

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New Post has been published on https://massispost.com/2024/08/usc-armenian-studies-institute-director-dr-shushan-karapetian-published-in-leading-journal-on-world-affairs/

USC Armenian Studies Institute Director Dr. Shushan Karapetian Published in Leading Journal on World Affairs

LOS ANGELES — Director of the USC Dornsife Institute of Armenian Studies Dr. Shushan Karapetian was invited to contribute an original essay to the Brown Journal of World Affairs, a biannual journal of international relations and foreign policy produced at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Founded in 1993, the Journal provides a forum for world leaders, policymakers, and prominent academics to engage in vigorous intellectual debate. Each issue showcases incisive scholarship on the most salient international issues of today and tomorrow. Past contributors include Jimmy Carter, Samantha Power, Mikhail Gorbachev, John Kerry, Noam Chomsky, and Joseph Stiglitz.…

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🇵🇸 … EXACTLY!! Couldn’t have said it any better!! — never agreed it was ‘self defense’!!

By: Ammar Y, Personal view, from LinkedIn …

“It's NOT Self-defence.. it's called brutal occupation and resisting is a must! Free and Liberated Palestine!!”! … 🇵🇸

#FreePalestine — 🍃🍉 — @hrexach

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Noam Chomsky, Chris Hedges & Dr. Shir Hever on Israel & Palestine

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The Psychology Podcast Joins iHeart & Prepares Your Brain For Life

 There are hundreds of psychology podcasts for those who either need mental health assistance, indulge their curiosity about how the mind works, or how to identify and avoid mental traps such as confirmation bias, hindsight bias, availability heuristics, The Dunning-Kruger effect or, the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy.

The Psychology Podcast with Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman has the virtue of the most self-explanatory and facile name for a genre podcast in the industry. The title sells itself. 

Thankfully for listeners, in the last ten years since the podcast began, Kaufman has delivered high-level conversations about multiple facets of psychology. 

After almost a decade, Kaufman has taken the plunge. iHeartPodcasts and Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman, have announced that the Psychology Podcast, joined iHeartPodcasts on January 18. New episodes will launch every Thursday, and fans can binge previous seasons and episodes on the iHeartRadio app and everywhere podcasts are heard.  

iHeart tells us: "With over 30 million listeners since its inception, The Psychology Podcast brings does bring science-backed conversations that can help listeners better manage their lives." Prior guests have included neuroscientists Andrew Huberman, Antonio Damasio, and Lisa Feldman Barrett; Linguist Noam Chomsky, psychologist Angela Duckworth, therapist Esther Perel, Nobel-prize winner Daniel Kahneman, and organizational psychologist Adam Grant. 

The roster of guests may be one of the most salient benefits of the show because it is an impressive list. Kaufman is a solid interviewer and knows how to guide his guests through a cohesive dispensation of the facts and concepts they are trying to communicate.

One of my favorite episodes is a recent one with Dr. Carol Dweck. Author of one of my favorite books, Mindset (The New Psychology Of Success), Dr. Dweck is a leading researcher in the field of motivation and is the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford. Her research examines the role of mindsets in personal achievement and organizational effectiveness. 

Another superb show was one in November 2023 with Angela Duckworth, who is a 2013 MacArthur Fellow and professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. She has advised the White House, the World Bank, NBA and NFL teams, and Fortune 500 CEOs. More recently, she founded the Character Lab, a nonprofit whose mission is to advance the science and practice of character development in children. She is the author of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, another of my favorite books.

Duckworth researches self-control and grit, which is defined as passion and perseverance for long-term goals. Her research has demonstrated that there are factors that can be more predictive of success than IQ. In the episode, they covered some of her findings on grit, including academic and popular misconceptions of this work. They also discussed research on standardized testing and self-control. 

“The Psychology Podcast is on a mission to help people live a more meaningful, self-actualized, and fulfilling life,” said Dr. Kaufman. “Through conversations with some of the world’s top scientists and self-actualizing people from a wide range of fields, the show provides listeners with the scientific tools and knowledge for self-improvement. As the podcast has grown, it has made sense to join forces with the number one podcast publisher—iHeartPodcasts. We are pumped up for this next chapter of the podcast.”

Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D., is known for his research on intelligence, creativity, and human potential. He is the founder of the Center for Human Potential and the founder of Self-Actualization Coaching. Dr. Kaufman has authored 10 books, including Choose Growth (with Jordyn Feingold).

The psychology podcast is a show worthy of your ear time. It's not Hidden Brain or Speaking of Psychology, but then both those psychology podcasts set a high bar for excellence.

The Psychology Podcast will join the iHeartPodcasts’ existing roster of ear worthy psychology podcasts, such as On Purpose with Jay Shetty, Therapy for Black Girls with Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, Pushkin’s The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos, A Slight Change of Planswith Dr. Maya Shankar, and Unbreakable with Jay Glazer.

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The collective unconscious exists

The archetype, as we have seen in the case of Sara, mani[1]fested itself by a sudden awareness in the course of the ana[1]lytic process. In thé case of David, it became apparent in a dream. Murray came to it through the work of his hands. Still another way in which the archetype emerges in psychic life is through language. As a matter of fact, only recently have sci[1]entists begun to recognize the “innate symbolic machinery, common to all men, [which] may have been used before the beginnings of formal language to communicate about such basic concerns as birth, life, death, love, combat and fear of the elements, which are common to both animals and men.”

According to a report headed “Language study indicates collective unconscious exists,” Joseph Jaffe, M.D., is willing to admit that “the existence of a collective unconscious common to all men is quite believable when translated into terms of recent studies on the foundation of language.” He notes that babies all over the world begin to exhibit language behavior at the same time and in the same way. This behavior, he says, is not taught but is innate and preprogrammed and coincides with certain stages of brain maturation and the ability to form concepts. “The specific language being spoken in the environment serves only as a vehicle for selection of a set of rules and distinctions which are automatically abstracted by the child” as the powers of conceptualization grow. ... “That which is innate and common to the world’s babies in learning a language, then, is a schema or catalogue of concept categories [this is exactly what Jung has understood as the archetypes of the collective unconscious] that are related by the brain to the subject matter of the environmental language by means of transformations (i.e., sentence X fits into category Y in such and such a way).” Dr. Jaffe concludes, “The fact that there is no natural language which does not contain a comparable catalogue of directions, assertions, negations, etc., is evidence for the existence of a universal grammar and semantics in all races,”!!

The evidence produced by research like that referred to above is often supported in surprising ways by the unconscious itself, which produces its own proofs for its existence and its nature. A dream brought to me by Ben, a school teacher in his first year of teaching elementary-school children and only beginning to perceive the manifold ways in which learning takes place, is a case in point: I am in some kind of underground laboratory, teaching animals to speak. I’m trying to teach them to say words with a long “e.” A man comes in, some kindly caretaker, and asks me if I’ve lost my mind. He says that animals have their own language. They don’t care about my goddam phonics.

The kindly caretaker, the man who knows animals because he has watched them day after day, is intuitively aware of what the teacher often does not know, and the scientist strains to discover. What the caretaker has known for a long time, and what he has to teach the teacher, is not so very different from what linguistics scholar Noam Chomsky had to say on television recently. I cannot reproduce what he said verbatim, but based on the notes I took as I was listening, the sense of his remarks was that the major properties of language structure are inherent in the human mind. Children are born possessing these qualities, and they have only to learn the particularities of the specific language of their own culture. Chomsky cautioned: Do not underestimate the originality and initiative of the human mind to develop language.

How very different is this point of view from that of the behaviorists who look upon the human organism as born possessed of a more or less inert and vacant machine called the brain which is programmed by the effects of the environment (television, parents, teachers, etc.) as input. If the organism machine has been inadvertently fed the wrong data and exposed to the wrong stimuli, well, then, let’s get busy and delete the objectionable concepts, and then reprogram the person in our own way. In the dream, is not the unconscious (personified by the old caretaker) telling the dream ego (Ben’s school teacher aspect) that he is not to overlook the innate potential for development that expresses itself spontaneously in children as in all forms of life?

--June Singer en "Boundaries of the Soul"

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According to Zionist logic, the following historical figures would have been considered “Hamas Terrorist Nazi Antisemites” because they were a) critical of Israeli war crimes and b) supported Palestinians:

Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Mahatma Gandhi

Malcolm X

Fred Hampton

Nelson Mandela

Albert Einstein (is Jewish)

Stephen Hawking

Frida Kahlo (is Jewish)

Noam Chomsky (is Jewish)

DJ KHALED 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

Muhammad Ali

Jimmy Carter

Ben and Jerry (the ice cream people)

Bernie Sanders (is Jewish)

Susan Sarandon

Now, let’s look at some of the people who have supported Israel since its creation and do to this day/until their death beds:

Donald Trump

Joseph Stalin

Joe Biden

George W. Bush

Bibi Netanyahu (Israeli PM)

Hillary Clinton

Jefferey Epstein

According to Zionist logic, the man who called white supremacists in Charlottesville who chanted “Jews will not replace us”, “fine good people” and the dictator of the USSR who actively persecuted Jews in SSRs like Lithuania, Sakartvelo, and Russia are both actually based liberal kings

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Is it all in the genes?

Noam Chomsky is among the world’s leading linguists and acknowledges that his field of expertise is home to some seemingly unsolvable mysteries; namely, where language came from and how. His theory is that a possible genetic mutation in one of our human ancestors gave them the ability to speak and understand language, which was passed on to their offspring. Because of the usefulness of this ability, Darwinist evolution meant that it became a dominant feature throughout humanity.

A UCLA/Emory study published in the journal Nature in 2009 seems to back up the theory. It revealed FOXP2, the gene essential to the development of language and speech, differs significantly depending on whether it is human or chimpanzee. Not only might this explain why the mutation of this gene results in language being disrupted, but also how we can talk and animals can’t. Dr Daniel Geschwind of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA said: “Earlier research suggests that the amino-acid composition of human FOXP2 changed rapidly around the same time that language emerged in modern humans.” The scientists discovered that the gene functioned and looked different in humans and chimps, and this difference meant a human brain was wired for language and a chimp’s was not. Could it be that an early mutation of this single gene is what ultimately separates us from all other life on Earth?

Another theory put forward by anthropologist Robin Dunbar is that as the human communities grew larger, people needed to find a more efficient form of grooming in order to keep their peers on their side. As a result, a type of vocal grooming developed – and it is likely these very early conversations would have been similar to the gossip we still indulge in today.

Of course, Chomsky’s theory is not the only possible answer to how language evolved. Many more experts follow the Continuity Theory that it evolved among human ancestors from pre-linguistic sounds. There are so many ideas within this field we don’t have time to list them all, but among them is the ‘putting the baby down’ hypothesis. Anthropologist Dean Falk suggests that as early humans lost their fur, it became more difficult for mothers to carry their babies on their backs as they gathered food and foraged. To reassure the baby she had not abandoned them, the mother would call to it and use facial expressions, body language and tactile communication like tickling. From this, Falk theorises language evolved.

So what’s the answer?

Unfortunately, it seems the answer to the question of where and how human language evolved is that we may never have an answer. However, it remains a problem we will never get tired of trying to resolve.