From: "jeffrey E." <[email protected]> To: Noam Chomsky Subject: Re: Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 13:25:21 +0000 I concede sexism. and she does open the door for you. so i stand corrected :) trying to guess the mind state of another is i believe part of cognitive development. sympathy makes it sound sweet. unless you mean manipulation and exploitation of the weaker also qualifes as "sympathy " I think that this desire to know the state. gets carried away and people see mindstates in inanimate objects . or pets. even a blind or deaf person attempts to have a shared understanding to either protect themselves or FEED. I spoke yesterday to trivers. who said you shared an interview with him and Seed magazine. ( i was the money behind , it failed ) On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 7:10 AM, Noam Chomsky > wrote: Sexist. How do you know that she didn't move the furniture while I told her when and where. Hobbes vs. Adam Smith. Hobbes: life is a war. Smith: the fundamental human motive is sympathy (including his term "invisible hand," invariably misunderstood. Reminds me of a quip of Quine's about origin of language: it was invented so that we wouldn't just hit each other. On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 12:14 AM, jeffrey E. [email protected]> wrote: You had the power to move the furniture she had the power to tell you when and where :) It's your term as I see it Chomsky vs the dubes Living systems need energy hence they FEED . Plants vegetables all try to protect themselves . Skin poisons , etc. I believe the best benefit to cost ratio relies on Deception And to know the mind of the predator or prey , language is the tool . It allows a shared understanding of mental objects , mental states and mental actions . patient 8 11 16 pos ng.pdf On Thursday, 11 August 2016, Noam Chomsky < > wrote: Great term. Can I plagiarize it? I guess one could say that a lion and a gazelle have competing powers, but it somehow seems misleading. All living systems? How about Valeria