From: "jeffrey E." [email protected]> To: Noam Chomsky Subject: Re: ALT MN , not in literatue Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 14:25:41 +0000 HAVE FUN. AND WHEN WE SEE EACH OTHER AGAIN I WILL TRY TO SHOW YOU A PICTURE OF THE ELEPHANT. REGARDS TO VALERIA On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Noam Chomsky wrote: Off for a couple of days, events in my old home town (Philly). Just a few comments, then closing up for a while. "The essence of life" is much too hard a problem for contemporary science, even for insects, let alone humans. UG is the genetic basis for the language faculty, and we can define VG as the genetic basis for the visual system (CG is too heterogeneous to be a useful concept, I suppose). I don't agree that nothing meaningful has been said about how these biological systems "accomplish what they do." Take just what I mentioned as illustrations, rigidity and structure- dependence. There are quite non-trivial results about each, with significant consequences. There's no known analogy, let alone homology, between these systems, though of course at some level they're constituted of cells. Plenty of secrets are safe, much as in physics and other areas of biology. Just don't get the rest. There are important real world consequences to these transactions, as there are to the radically regressive tax system in Texas, just reported, even more so than in the rest of the country. But topics for talk when we have a chance. From: Jeffrey E. [mailto:[email protected] Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 7:06 AM To: Noam Chomsky Subject: Re: ALT MIN , not in literatue up till 4 am , reading. every night. thanks . great fun - my conjecture (after 25 years of funding of bio- math, math physiology , synthetic biology, Al , general intelligence. . far eastern medicine. placebo effect , fmri's up the kazoo, ) All Biology is composed of redundant and degenerative systems. fractalized to a degree.i.e. single cell , multi cell. organisms etc. The single cell subordi