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Book: The Secrets of Words
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 03 May 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14237.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262369053
Book: The Secrets of Words
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 03 May 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14237.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262369053
Book: The Secrets of Words
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 03 May 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14237.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262369053
Book: The Secrets of Words
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 03 May 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14237.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262369053
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 03 May 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14237.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262369053
Two distinguished linguists on language, the history of science, misplaced euphoria, surprising facts, and potentially permanent mysteries. In The Secrets of Words , influential linguist Noam Chomsky and his longtime colleague Andrea Moro have a wide-ranging conversation, touching on such topics as language and linguistics, the history of science, and the relation between language and the brain. Moro draws Chomsky out on today's misplaced euphoria about artificial intelligence (Chomsky sees “lots of hype and propaganda” coming from Silicon Valley), the study of the brain (Chomsky points out that findings from brain studies in the 1950s never made it into that era's psychology), and language acquisition by children. Chomsky in turn invites Moro to describe his own experiments, which proved that there exist impossible languages for the brain, languages that show surprising properties and reveal unexpected secrets of the human mind. Chomsky once said, “It is important to learn to be surprised by simple facts”—“an expression of yours that has represented a fundamental turning point in my own personal life,” says Moro—and this is something of a theme in their conversation. Another theme is that not everything can be known; there may be permanent mysteries, about language and other matters. Not all words will give up their secrets.
Book: Nuclear Weapons
Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 February 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12798.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262368414
Book: Nuclear Weapons
Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 February 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12798.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262368414
Book: Nuclear Weapons
Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 February 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12798.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262368414
Book: Nuclear Weapons
Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 February 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12798.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262368414
Book: Nuclear Weapons
Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 February 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12798.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262368414
Book: Nuclear Weapons
Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 February 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12798.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262368414
Book: Nuclear Weapons
Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 February 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12798.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262368414
Book: Nuclear Weapons
Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 February 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12798.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262368414
Book: Nuclear Weapons
Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 February 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12798.003.0009
EISBN: 9780262368414
Book: Nuclear Weapons
Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 February 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12798.003.0010
EISBN: 9780262368414
Book: Nuclear Weapons
Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 February 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12798.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262368414
Book: Nuclear Weapons
Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 February 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12798.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262368414
Book: Nuclear Weapons
Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 February 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12798.003.0013
EISBN: 9780262368414
Book: Nuclear Weapons
Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 February 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12798.003.0014
EISBN: 9780262368414
Book: Nuclear Weapons
Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 February 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12798.003.0015
EISBN: 9780262368414