From: Noam Chomsky Sent: Sunday, August 2, 2015 3:03 PM To: Jeffrey E. Subject: RE: Re: And I soon will. At American airlines. She's on her way back from Brazil. These are amazing capacities. Not sure how well they are understood. From: jeffrey E. [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2015 10:02 AM To: Noam Chomsky Subject: Re: Re: you can recognize valerias face in a crowd, and know its her voice immediately on the phone. I'm not sure if analysis as opposed to shape recognition ( distance time function) for the face and fourier transform for voice. is rightly considered analysis and parsing. I don't think so on another note ,using your right eye and then your left try to focus for a moment on Valeria's right eye and then focus on her left.while you are talking to her, . see if you get different info. the expression "the eyes are the windows of the soul ", might be wrong, it might only be one eye,:) On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Noam Chomsky wrote: The idea of interpreting sensory systems as involving both input and output, and hence presumably accessing a central system of competence (as distinct from the input-output performance systems) is a very interesting one, particularly the hints about eyes. I don't see quite how it works, but worth pursuing and thinking about. Very few people I can think of, but will think more. What sensory systems provide to the brain is always interpreted by internal systems, memory included, and the sensory systems themselves carry out analysis. There's a good deal of detailed work on this, mainly for sound and vision. Turns out, for example, that chimp auditory system yields something very close to the physical features that EFTA_R1_01613320 EFTA02491357