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From: jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2015 1:23 AM To: Noam Chomsky Subject: Re: Re: the chemicals and their actions storage, transmission, can=ot be sliced away. they are the ultimate source of langu=ge. the grammar of the cellular signals. , or shapes , i= protein folding. are the tinker toys . the =bject that they produce is your digital infinity On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 8:05 PM, =oam Chomsk > wrote: I don't see where that gets ur. Everything is generated, ultimately, by the same sources. 8u= we still want to understand the nature of the visual, immune, enteric nervous, linguistic, etc., systems. From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.coml Sent: Monday, October 19 2015 7:22 PM To: Noam Chomsk Subject: Re: but the words are generated by chemical electrical=C2 actions. . nothing more. there is no make believe force.=C2 . go to the source. On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Noam Chomsky >= wrote: eat, great, great. But=for the moment, roles reversed. Valeria Had to call of our trip. Last=one was called of Maybe the next one ecause=our og wi ave a nervous breakdown. It's certainly true that ther= are all kinds of information transfer. Human language, a particular biological object, can also be used for this purpose (though it is hard to=comprehend the common claim that this is its "function").=C2 Suppose, however, that we limit ourselves to organ-to-organ signalin=. Would it be appropriate to ask why chemical signals are not "merely a signal for internal use", just like elec=rical, linguistic, other? I don't think so. We would w=nt to know what chemical signals are and how they work, and the same for e=ectrical, linguistic, etc. They are all radically different, and their particular nature is the object of inquiry into them.<=> EFTA_R1_01599978 EFTA02483032 And again, linguistic systems are rad=cally different from the others in that signaling is only one of many uses of language, statistically speaking (for what that's=E2 worth, probably not much) a very minor one. And crucially, =nvestigation of the nature of language has, I think, yielded mounting and =ignificant evidence that in the design of language externalization altogether is a peripheral property, largely a reflex of whatever sensory =odality is used, hence special uses such as communication even more so. From: Jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com) Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 1:23 PM To: Noam Chomsky Subject: cells signal each other by various means. =AO. chemical gas . electrical, . , multicellular=C2 other chemicals. wider range of signals. some sigals internal some external. =AO. why is not " language merely a signal for internal u=e . organ to organ, sense to sense. the eyes telling nos= where to turn. etc. . and then it gets vocalized for external signalling as part of a repertoi=e. gesture prosody etc. is there a universal vocal=zation , OW for example, when pain sensors engage?=C2 and vocalize as a by product of the info transfer. . =AO I love to see how your wife takes care of you. great great great please no=e The information contained in this communication is confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may constitute inside information, and is intended only for the use of the addressee. 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