From: "Jeffrey E." <[email protected]> To: Noam Chomsky Subject: Re: Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 23:50:55 +0000 Pun On Friday, July 31, 2015, Noam Chomsky < wrote: There is a notion of coherence in both cases, but how to unify them, or whether it's possible, I don't really see. From: Jeffrey E. [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, July 31, 2015 1:33 PM To: Noam Chomsky Subject: Re: what i have been calling my sense making module.. visual sense, is the image coherent. / ? why dont you ask your young friends what they think the chomsky questions should be. I will provide the reward On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Noam Chomsky wrote: Marr's group, as you know, studied edges, rigidity, etc. Those particular phenomena don't seem relevant to language, except indirectly (as Marr and I in fact discussed often): there must be built-in systems that enter into language processing (including determining grammatical status -- "legitimacy" — one property among many). That's what work on UG should be about. Noam From: jeffrey E. imailto:[email protected] Sent: Friday, July 31, 2015 12:59 PM To: Noam Chomsky Subject: I hope you have fun at the institute. I am in santa fe. . you and i have discussed vision and edges etc rigidity etc. auto focus on a camera looks for the most contrast . is there an equivalent . first step to intuit whether a sentence is legitimate ? EFTA00849868