From: jeffrey E. <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 1, 2015 1:23 PM To: Noam Chomsky Subject: Re: Re: music was also greatly transformed by the intro of notatio= ( ie accessing the visual system to enhance the field ) </=iv> On Sat, Aug 1= 2015 at 6:54 AM, Noam Chomsky wrote: There is a view that language is esse=tially a processing system. The arguments against it seem to me very=power. I'll attach a recent paper about it, a contribu=ion to a volume of essays dedicated to Jerry Fodor and focusing on his concept=on of language as processing (input modules). His version is f=r more sophisticated than the signal processing approaches that were all t=e rage in the 1950s, drawing from the successes of wartime technology in signal analysis and Shannon's information=theory. Noam From: jeffrey E. [mailto:[email protected] Sent: Saturday, August 01 2015 7:34 AM To: Noam Chomsky Subject: Re: Re: can it be thought of as no more than signal processi=g. why not use the same technology that attempts to intercept commun=cations and decode the signals and apply it to language. =C2 normally one tries to process the signals. i wonder if they put it in reverse. and processed the language in an attempt =o find coherence.??? On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 6:58 PM, Noam Chomsky =rote: There is a notion of coherence in bot= cases, but how to unify them, or whether it's possible, I don =80 t really see. From: jeffrey E. [mailto:[email protected] EFTA_R1_01613602 EFTA02491512