From: jeffrey E. <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 5:12 PM To: Noam Chomsky Subject: Re: Re: but they also act as a guiding star. lets try.=C2 . no harm. I fear that without them ,the chances are sli=mer of merely stumbling upon the aha. =br> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 5:50 PM, Noam Chomsk= The third problem can be posed =93 though few will understand it. The first two can be posed but the=e is no known way to address them — the first for reasons that Dick Lewontin explained in his important paper on evolution of cognit=on (which those who write about the topic refuse to read), the second beca=se it reaches to issues that are total mysteries even in much simpler doma=ns — perhaps, though many don't to contemplate the fact, because of limits of human cognitive capacity. =AO Puppet and puppeteer, again. There are lots of narrower problems that can be posed, but there are issues=of general import. What was very special, maybe unique, about Hilbert in 1900 was the advances=in the field had reached the point so that questions had that miraculous c=mbination of being (1) potentially within reach and (2) of very great impo=t for the field of mathematics. That's hard to achieve. Will think more about it — re=eating the Hebrew words to myself. Did you learn them as a kid in He=rew school? Noam From: jeffrey E. [mailto:[email protected] Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 5:09 PM To: Noam Chomsky Subject: Re: Re: I understand the limitations of questions too far fr=m the boundary of contemporary thought but as you speak =ebrew. i will paraphrase the reason you should consider posing the q=estions now. -- If not now. when? On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Noam Chomsky te: EFTA_R1_01621068 EFTA02496528