From: jeffrey E. <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 2, 2015 2:02 PM 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 =pposed to shape recognition ( distance time function) for the face a=d 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 =indows of the soul ", might be wrong, it might only be one eye,.) On Su=, Aug 2, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Noam Chomsky Ma> wrot=: The idea of interpreting sensory syst=ms as involving both input and output, and hence presumably accessing a ce=tral system of competence (as distinct from the input-output performance systems) is a very interesting one, particularly =he hints about eyes. I don't see quite how it works, but wor=h pursuing and thinking about. Very few people I can think of, but w=ll think more. What sensory systems provide to the b=ain is always interpreted by internal systems, memory included, and the se=sory 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 so=ething very close to the physical features that enter into the phonologica= systems of human language, but lacking the internal interpretation, for the apes it's noise while for the new=orn infant it's language. From: jeffrey E. [mailto:[email protected]) Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2015 7:33 PM To: Noam Chomsky < & Subject: Re: Re: is a first step to get a group together of people th=t might add useful insights. . people you respect . though you=might disagree. maybe we pose the question to the group. =C2 re eyes, it seems that each sense