Language: The Cognitive Revolution - Noam Chomsky

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  • Professor Noam Chomsky delivers the 20th annual James R. Killian, Jr. Faculty Achievement Award and Lecture, titled "Language: the Cognitive Revolutions," on April 8, 1992. The Killian Award was established in 1971 to recognize extraordinary professional accomplishments by full-time members of the MIT faculty. A faculty committee chooses the recipient from candidates nominated by their peers for outstanding contributions to their fields, to MIT and to society.

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  • @joshuaevett5441
    @joshuaevett5441 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    What's shocking to me is you can watch every interview, talk, etc., he has ever given and he never gets a word wrong or mangles his syntax, while discussing cutting edge linguistic science, philosophy, history, you name it. Remarkable.

    • @mattblack118
      @mattblack118 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yet he gets everything wrong about covid, climate and capitalism... weird.

    • @johnhelm6231
      @johnhelm6231 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I will have to always either 😅

    • @IlhamTauf
      @IlhamTauf 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@mattblack118how do you know he was wrong?

    • @mattblack118
      @mattblack118 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@IlhamTauf Because his predictions were incorrect. That's how this works.

    • @IlhamTauf
      @IlhamTauf 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@mattblack118 can you tell me more about it or maybe give me some references?

  • @fabiengerard8142
    @fabiengerard8142 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Best teacher ever… True humanist mind.

    • @ebrahimcarstens1035
      @ebrahimcarstens1035 ปีที่แล้ว

      Humanist? Stop talking kak

    • @makimakipapura7543
      @makimakipapura7543 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Really dressed as well. No offense, but I assume you have no idea how hard it is to get it all right as he does here.

    • @mattblack118
      @mattblack118 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He is a socialist and disgusting excuse for a human being.

    • @BraniG-psyc03
      @BraniG-psyc03 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Exactly

    • @mattblack118
      @mattblack118 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Only if you are an America hating Marxist idiot.

  • @englishplusacademy9211
    @englishplusacademy9211 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very nice! Thanks to the channel for such an event.

  • @melodyjang2876
    @melodyjang2876 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Transcript of this talk would be such a treasure.

  • @sadhanaidu5918
    @sadhanaidu5918 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Total amazement of scholarly outflow.. limitless it is.

  • @atheoma
    @atheoma 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    what a lecture wow! thanks for sharing

  • @ganeshb9339
    @ganeshb9339 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Whether languages are learnable or not is an empirical matter to discover. Languages are not usable to a large extent. Thunderous clapping, what a wonderful lecture by MIT prof.

  • @ragemsaid8697
    @ragemsaid8697 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Rare human. Great scholar of the century’

    • @braylonleon8257
      @braylonleon8257 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Instablaster...

    • @mattblack118
      @mattblack118 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He's a not so rare example of a leftist turned totalitarian monster.

  • @chandrashekharupadhyaya6530
    @chandrashekharupadhyaya6530 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Excellent deliberation 🙏

  • @khaldounkhader6750
    @khaldounkhader6750 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    God bless the benevolent knowledge and its champions and knights.

  • @KeskinCookin
    @KeskinCookin 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Chomsky = Walking encyclopedia

    • @juliolamprea4064
      @juliolamprea4064 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      + critical thinking= genius.

  • @johnhelm6231
    @johnhelm6231 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This was unmatched performance

  • @BraniG-psyc03
    @BraniG-psyc03 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I adore him 🎉

  • @ichtube
    @ichtube 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    This might be one of his best talks.

  • @eismar5
    @eismar5 6 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    instant noam: 5:25

  • @ivannegri7724
    @ivannegri7724 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The word house is a fantastically complex concept, involving abstract ideas of exterior and interior and an observers physiceal relation to those two states. A
    Some autistic people have singular visual representations of the category house, so if they imagine what houses look like they don't have a variety of possible exterior design structures to choose for internal representation, but rather a single house exemplar image. The cog. normative brain makes this same conceptual operation if you ask the normal person to visualize home; I find this interesting.

    • @AnHebrewChild
      @AnHebrewChild 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Can you explain your last sentence? You make a distinction between house and home (which, of course, there is) but you seem to suggest that "home" invokes a conceptual image in the 'normal' brain much like 'house' does in some autistics.
      This seems counter-intuitive to me.
      Did I read you correctly?

    • @ivannegri7724
      @ivannegri7724 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@AnHebrewChild I sort of confused myself, I can only assume that I meant that for a non-autistic house is a particular that needs no singular mental representation, meaning everytime you think about a house you might very well think of a different house every time, but because home is your personal relationship to house, you have a sort of Platonic singular representation, for example my parents had several residences when I grew up, but I always associated home with one particular house, the house on Green meadow Dr. so for me that was representative of what the feeling of the word home invokes. Sorry about the confusing nature of my not well formulated thoughts.

    • @AnHebrewChild
      @AnHebrewChild 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ivannegri7724 Ah, now I get what you're getting at. Thank you for the explanation. The word 'platonic' there helped me out. Interesting idea that the non-autistic will unconsciously select a former residency, presumably one with the highest degree of imprinted emotions, to express the "HOME," that's very interesting.
      Whom should I credit this idea to? You or xyz famed psychologist? :D
      lmk

  • @bryanl.morrison552
    @bryanl.morrison552 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I'm very new to his work as a linguist, having only been exposed to his perspectives on politics and history (which I don't particularly agree with.)
    I am utterly stunned and impressed.

    • @dfghj241
      @dfghj241 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      lol you don't? so what you think its all wine and flowers?

    • @stevenhines5550
      @stevenhines5550 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He's a pretty smart guy

    • @sansamman4619
      @sansamman4619 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Just one thing to keep in mind, he has never made a wrong prediction when it comes to politics…

    • @TheLarousse89
      @TheLarousse89 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sorry for finding this 3 years later; I'm not sure how you could disagree with much of what he says. He cites sources and draws pictures around ideas that he's selling and then drills into the idea. He does it over and over. He also gives great context as to what/how/why everything operates the way it does now.
      Also his politics are literally let people self govern and don't kill people (that's dumbed down but I am pretty sure I've landed on the general essence)

    • @Saber23
      @Saber23 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dfghj241 he just doesn’t agree with his political views

  • @zeinebbehim1556
    @zeinebbehim1556 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    So thankful for grasping some insights from such a great man!

    • @mattblack118
      @mattblack118 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He's a communist idiot

  • @carlitosgl
    @carlitosgl ปีที่แล้ว +3

    a genius, Chomsky

    • @mattblack118
      @mattblack118 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He\s a moron

    • @t33nyplaysp0p
      @t33nyplaysp0p 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@mattblack118 He's* the master of linguistics.
      And you can't even use an apostrophe correctly

    • @mattblack118
      @mattblack118 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@t33nyplaysp0p He's still a moron.

  • @martinezlopez4699
    @martinezlopez4699 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    @ Uploader or other contributors; is there any way to upload this GREAT Video again in a HIGH resolution and MOST importantly though if the SUBTITLE could be added too

  • @emersonfelipecardonasilva2785
    @emersonfelipecardonasilva2785 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Chomsky is the GOAT

    • @mattblack118
      @mattblack118 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He's a senile moron

  • @doreekaplan2589
    @doreekaplan2589 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So much better visual without his current over long grey frizzled hair on his face. Hes a nice looking man. I can listen without watching the later ones. Appreciate all these talks and interviews with him. Thanksalot

  • @mariagildesagredo8690
    @mariagildesagredo8690 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

  • @theinspector7882
    @theinspector7882 ปีที่แล้ว

    As long as there's no Theory of Everything we're just speculating on the properties of the brain and of the mind.

  • @nyworker
    @nyworker 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I like Terence Deacon's ideas of absences. Linguistic expression and meanings are just as much about what is said vs what is not said in an expression.

  • @grandmasterhiram
    @grandmasterhiram ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'd say, normally, technology works 80% in favor of the skilled, whom are also the good, let's face it... Until money comes in, and it's 80% on them's favor. We need people of integrity.

  • @Vifnis
    @Vifnis ปีที่แล้ว

    1:32:58 Oh, whoa.... 90min tape limit here!?

  • @itssanti
    @itssanti 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Descartes didnt make it to the top ten...
    That's astonishing

  • @nyworker
    @nyworker 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    At 1:14:30 Noam was having a language processing problem interfacing with the external environment. Somehow his brain figured it.
    Actually computer higher languages mimic brain processing by operations like pointers which are efficiancy tools.

  • @waindayoungthain2147
    @waindayoungthain2147 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    🙏🏻, if’s I cared for your mercy, I am only dusting, I have never seen anything about the senses and awareness one’s figured out how’s the world going with democratic catalyst, on the way of military made for independence, on the organization of world disruption in conflict without prosperity by the democratic on social disruption but egotistical 😊🙏🏻.

  • @edwardmurdoch5070
    @edwardmurdoch5070 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Lecture starts at 5:10

    • @mindsigh4
      @mindsigh4 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      geeze thank u ,opening statements are only good if u think sermons at church was foreplay

    • @edwardmurdoch5070
      @edwardmurdoch5070 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@mindsigh4 Amen!

  • @sadhanaidu5918
    @sadhanaidu5918 ปีที่แล้ว

    Academics, the curriculum dotter, gets reconfigured.

  • @noisepuppet
    @noisepuppet ปีที่แล้ว

    Skip the first 6:00 or so 😊

  • @debarshiarathdar7278
    @debarshiarathdar7278 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    is it Lex Fridman at 1:20:33 ?

    • @polymathpark
      @polymathpark ปีที่แล้ว +1

      he would have been like 5 years old then..

  • @charleswood2182
    @charleswood2182 ปีที่แล้ว

    The fact of naming ceremonies means we are smart enough to know we can be named. That's a recognition which could be made independent of other communities and without saltation. If you look at folk history of California native Americans, first came name for me, then for you, then for direction, etc. That's a new technology. And naming ceremonies for teens is common. And also, In the beginning was the word.... is an abstract expression of how important worded expression became. In animistic religion, you get a name under cave art where the animals are god like. Now you get a name to place you in a community of likes. And once you have a name for yourself, art can flow as naming devices, educational devices for a new idea. Look at Anne Sullivan. Teaching a new technology to Helen. It spreads.

  • @Noor-vv9sm
    @Noor-vv9sm ปีที่แล้ว

    Can someone tell me who is " Lennon " ,, because it doesn't make sense with Google search results.... 3:35

    • @zay7192
      @zay7192 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Vladimir Lenin

  • @sahulianhooligan7046
    @sahulianhooligan7046 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Rest in peace Noam

    • @niewiem3887
      @niewiem3887 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      he didn't die

    • @4lynneterry
      @4lynneterry ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He’s still alive!

    • @fabiengerard8142
      @fabiengerard8142 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ?!?!?

    • @fluxo_musical
      @fluxo_musical ปีที่แล้ว +4

      9 months into your comment and Chomsky's still standing

    • @atheoma
      @atheoma 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@fluxo_musicala year now, still there ❤‍🩹

  • @EuDouArteHipHopArtCulture21
    @EuDouArteHipHopArtCulture21 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    1:25:20

  • @pippop4693
    @pippop4693 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just to get acquainted with the contrasting view, does anyone know what is the best overall refutation of Chomsky's ideas about language? Maybe Everett's? Is there a lecture where one can find a summary of the main criticisms to Chomsky's doctrine?

    • @mindsigh4
      @mindsigh4 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Pip pop_comic books & the bible

    • @polymathpark
      @polymathpark ปีที่แล้ว +3

      nope, chomsky is our guiding light in language. Wittgenstein went very far into language philosophy as well though, profound observations from both.

    • @ernststravoblofeld
      @ernststravoblofeld ปีที่แล้ว

      The thing is, he nailed it. Refutations never age well. Every once in a while someone finds a language that doesn't appear to have some minor thing he said was universal, but it turns out wrong or extremely nitpicky even for scientists. The main idea, that there's some a priori knowledge backing up the acquisition of language, is almost universally accepted.

  • @waindayoungthain2147
    @waindayoungthain2147 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    My Father’s 🙏🏻, I looked at what’s the any science of proof means to justifying what’s happening if’s to learn in combination, if’s I love linguistics and literature feel and science is fair or only the fact to proof😊🙏🏻, what’s ever if’s the manipulation cultures 😸. So sorry I feeling like the alien 👽😊🙏🏻.

  • @waindayoungthain2147
    @waindayoungthain2147 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    🙏🏻my Father’s I am only dust or the truth disturbing , it’s twisted in the Manufacture offensive, please. How’s the day going with thorns and fangs around on the products of earths’ propaganda rights, and violations please 🥺🙏🏻.

  • @Mykaeil
    @Mykaeil 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    VVORLD WE LIVING IS NOA-H GOMSKY INTER-CEPTION____NOE PREVARA___NOVY PRVOPOCIATOK___THANK U NOE FOR NOE ARCHA NOE CIVIL ORDER___ AMEN

  • @ralluzarebon
    @ralluzarebon 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Alerts ocean

  • @terabyter9000
    @terabyter9000 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ChatGPT enters the chat.

  • @iknownothingneonlights4284
    @iknownothingneonlights4284 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Anyone how has listened with admiration Mr Noam Chomsky especially in America as an American citizens, while being able to vote and of a voting age, which has not voted for Donald Trump in the last two elections, does not understand a single word this gentleman speaks.
    Am I lying in stating that....?

  • @carlitosgl
    @carlitosgl ปีที่แล้ว

    I like it when he touches his neck, he does that th-cam.com/video/0hzCOsQJ8Sc/w-d-xo.html

  • @Worldlyknowledge7
    @Worldlyknowledge7 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    If you want to listen to this man.
    1.25x or 1.5x
    You're welcome

  • @vicvinegar845
    @vicvinegar845 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wasn't this guy friends with epstein?

  • @sandorrabe5745
    @sandorrabe5745 ปีที่แล้ว

    What is this man blabbing about when talking about the "stable mental state" and the "input signal" being modulated to keep the system stable. 16:14 He seriously thinks we can put a bridle on that and start to manipulate the input signal to produce a state of euphoria and sell tickets to the public who'd like a dose of that. I pass thanks mate.

    • @atheoma
      @atheoma 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ahahahahahahahah

  • @MrRalph2000
    @MrRalph2000 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Language is unusable? Only beautiful?! Really??? Some strange elements just at the end...

    • @alexadam6998
      @alexadam6998 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What is thought?

  • @ainstolkiner2063
    @ainstolkiner2063 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    just silly

  • @thedivewithjacksonhinkle6999
    @thedivewithjacksonhinkle6999 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    L

  • @martinkennedy2400
    @martinkennedy2400 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ...Chomsky defines boredom

    • @mindsigh4
      @mindsigh4 ปีที่แล้ว

      timestamp?

    • @christopherhamilton3621
      @christopherhamilton3621 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Your response defines wilful incomprehensibility.

  • @ansschapendonk4560
    @ansschapendonk4560 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Chomsky, a nice man, but not someone who did really understand the soundhelix (klankhelix, Lauthelix), rediscovered by Ans Schapendonk. Now, the university of Leiden did present this 'Language as a timemachine' which is the Oracle of Delphi, men never did study seriously. Ausgerechnet die deutschen Universitäten mischen sich hier ein, während die Professoren hier Plagiat betreiben (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Deutsche Sprachatlas, Jürgen Erich Schmidt. Zitat: "Zu Frauen die mir nichts zu sagen haben, spreche ich nicht"! Eben, hält den Mund, weil Männer, im Gegensatz zu den Hohepriesterinnen, überhaupt nichts von Sprache verstanden haben.

    • @mattblack118
      @mattblack118 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Chomsky, is not a "nice man". He would of jailed people for not taking covid vaccines. He is a living piece of shit as are all that think like him.

  • @user-zu6kj8fv2w
    @user-zu6kj8fv2w 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I have a hard time listening to Noam Chomsky, he talks so slow and he makes the most drawn out points without really painting a rich narrative. Big ADHD.

    • @BenVPulgar
      @BenVPulgar 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      1674 that’s actually what I like about Chomsky! He sort of fills all the holes. It’s not fancy and shiny to lure speakers but the way he explains things, is just wow

    • @touatitbelkais6072
      @touatitbelkais6072 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      omg how dare you say that about chomsky lol

    • @mindsigh4
      @mindsigh4 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @1674_thank u , a musician he aint, over due for the Heimlich maneuver. even tho he's clearer here than most,his style is annoying. are the books less stodgy?