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From: jeffrey E. <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 12, 2016 1:54 AM To: Noam Chomsky Subject: Re: I will now credit you with the derivation. Do a new term. - Dubes =AO Data usage based enthusiasts On Thursday, Augu=t 11, 2016, Noam Chomsky <[email protected] <mailto:nchomsky3 ®gmail.com» wrote: Every act is is power in some small way. But the sense relevant =o those who write about power -- Morgenthau, Russell, etc. -- is coercive =ower. Like my telling my dog right now that I can't play with he=. How about putting an animal with a human auditory and visual=system in the same room as a human infant -- a chimp for example. An= see if it can learn speech or sign the way the infant does. Acquisi=ion of speech and sign are remarkably similar. And we know that even=with huge training efforts, which the infant doesn't need at all, resu=ts for the chimp will be zero. But interestingly, the facts as usual=have no interest to the data-processing usage-based enthusiasts. =/div> On Thu, Aug=11, 2016 at 8:48 PM, jeffrey E. <[email protected]> wrote: Even if far it could act as a North Star . , power has many p=operties those might me some . Is the ability to care for many =A0 Power? Is the ability to find new medicines power . How about a challenge that says put a thing in a room and see =f can learn a language .? On Thursday, August 11, =016, Noam Chomsky < <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml',' w=o Thinking abou= it. Keep realizing that I'm not Hilbert, and linguistics isn -=;t 20th century math. The exciting problems I can think of are eithe= too far from current understanding, or too theory-internal for the genera= significance to be easily perceived. Meanwhile, ran across a=nice definition of "power," thinking about an earlier letter tha= you may have forgotten. From Hans Morgenthau: Power in the internat=onal context is "that untamed and barbaric force which finds its laws=in nothing but its own strength and its sole justifi cation in its own a=grandizement." On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 8:50 AM, jeffrey E. =It;[email protected]> wrote: EFTA_R1_01557612 EFTA02455177  five questions in language. =AO the chomsky challenge. . 50k in prizes. ?=C2 use the Internet to reach the brightest minds ? why not?=C2 please no=e The information contained in this communication is confidenti=l, may be attorney-client privileged, may constitute inside information= and is intended only for the use of the addressee. It is the property =f JEE Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this communicati=n or any part thereof is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If yo= have received this communication in error, please notify us immediatel= by return e-mail or by e-mail to [email protected], and =estroy this communication and all copies thereof, including all attachm=nts. copyright -all rights reserved =C2 please note The informat=on contained in this communication is confidential, may be attorney-cli=nt privileged, may constitute inside information, and is intended only =or the use of the addressee. It is the property of JEE Unauthoriz=d use, disclosure or copying of this communication or any part thereof =5 strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this return e-mail o= by e-mail to [email protected] <javascript:_e(A7B%7D;[email protected]);> , and d=stroy this communication and all copies thereof, including all attachme=ts. copyright -all rights reserved =C2 please note 2 EFTA_R1_01557613 EFTA02455178  The information contained in this communic=tion is confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may constit=te inside information, and is intended only for the use of the addresse=. It is the property of JEE Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying =f this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited and =ay be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, pleas= notify us immediately by return e-mail or by e-mail to [email protected], and<=r>destroy this communication and all copies thereof, including all atta=hments. copyright -all rights reserved 3 EFTA_R1_01557614 EFTA02455179