g that: "Nothing exists except atoms and space,
every thing else is opinion", and: "Everything existing in the universe is
the fruit of chance and necessity".
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From: Bill Kerr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; David McMullen
Just a really quick comment on *one* of your points (I haven't time to
discuss the rest right nowsorry)
We don't learn to speak in the same sense that we learn to write. Minsky
argues that learn is too vague a word for scientific use (from memory) and
suggests a whole string of new words
Bill Kerr wrote:
'How the Mind Works' by Steven Pinker
Very interesting ideas arise from applying evolutionary theory to psychology
(p. 44) and family values (p.425). I also thought his earlier book, The
Language Instinct, was excellent -- explains Chomsky better than Chomsky
can.
Paul wrote:
"If we keep the exchange of ideas going, if we can focus on achievable
stuff which we enjoy doing and which satisfies the yen we all have in
the here and now to make as much trouble as possible for the reactionary
farts who run the system, then most of us will have a sufficient pay
