Language: The Cognitive Revolution - Noam Chomsky

Professor Noam Chomsky delivers the 20th annual James R. Killian, Jr. Faculty Achievement Award and Lecture, titled "Language: the Cognitive Revolutions," on April 8, 1992. The Killian Award was established in 1971 to recognize extraordinary professional accomplishments by full-time members of the MIT faculty. A faculty committee chooses the recipient from candidates nominated by their peers for outstanding contributions to their fields, to MIT and to society.

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  • @joshuaevett5441
    @joshuaevett5441 Жыл бұрын

    What's shocking to me is you can watch every interview, talk, etc., he has ever given and he never gets a word wrong or mangles his syntax, while discussing cutting edge linguistic science, philosophy, history, you name it. Remarkable.

  • @mattblack118

    @mattblack118

    6 ай бұрын

    Yet he gets everything wrong about covid, climate and capitalism... weird.

  • @johnhelm6231

    @johnhelm6231

    6 ай бұрын

    I will have to always either 😅

  • @IlhamTauf

    @IlhamTauf

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@mattblack118how do you know he was wrong?

  • @mattblack118

    @mattblack118

    3 ай бұрын

    @@IlhamTauf Because his predictions were incorrect. That's how this works.

  • @IlhamTauf

    @IlhamTauf

    3 ай бұрын

    @@mattblack118 can you tell me more about it or maybe give me some references?

  • @fabiengerard8142
    @fabiengerard8142 Жыл бұрын

    Best teacher ever… True humanist mind.

  • @ebrahimcarstens1035

    @ebrahimcarstens1035

    Жыл бұрын

    Humanist? Stop talking kak

  • @makimakipapura7543

    @makimakipapura7543

    Жыл бұрын

    Really dressed as well. No offense, but I assume you have no idea how hard it is to get it all right as he does here.

  • @mattblack118

    @mattblack118

    3 ай бұрын

    He is a socialist and disgusting excuse for a human being.

  • @BraniG-psyc03

    @BraniG-psyc03

    Ай бұрын

    Exactly

  • @mattblack118

    @mattblack118

    Ай бұрын

    Only if you are an America hating Marxist idiot.

  • @melodyjang2876
    @melodyjang28762 жыл бұрын

    Transcript of this talk would be such a treasure.

  • @ganeshb9339
    @ganeshb9339 Жыл бұрын

    Whether languages are learnable or not is an empirical matter to discover. Languages are not usable to a large extent. Thunderous clapping, what a wonderful lecture by MIT prof.

  • @sadhanaidu5918
    @sadhanaidu5918 Жыл бұрын

    Total amazement of scholarly outflow.. limitless it is.

  • @englishplusacademy9211
    @englishplusacademy92113 жыл бұрын

    Very nice! Thanks to the channel for such an event.

  • @ragemsaid8697
    @ragemsaid86975 жыл бұрын

    Rare human. Great scholar of the century’

  • @braylonleon8257

    @braylonleon8257

    2 жыл бұрын

    Instablaster...

  • @mattblack118

    @mattblack118

    3 ай бұрын

    He's a not so rare example of a leftist turned totalitarian monster.

  • @atheoma
    @atheoma7 ай бұрын

    what a lecture wow! thanks for sharing

  • @chandrashekharupadhyaya6530
    @chandrashekharupadhyaya65302 жыл бұрын

    Excellent deliberation 🙏

  • @KeskinCookin
    @KeskinCookin5 жыл бұрын

    Chomsky = Walking encyclopedia

  • @juliolamprea4064

    @juliolamprea4064

    Ай бұрын

    + critical thinking= genius.

  • @khaldounkhader6750
    @khaldounkhader67506 жыл бұрын

    God bless the benevolent knowledge and its champions and knights.

  • @eismar5
    @eismar56 жыл бұрын

    instant noam: 5:25

  • @shaneanderson5569

    @shaneanderson5569

    5 жыл бұрын

    good man

  • @dylansmith2550

    @dylansmith2550

    4 жыл бұрын

  • @mindsigh4

    @mindsigh4

    2 жыл бұрын

    agnostic amen

  • @mattblack118

    @mattblack118

    3 ай бұрын

    Horrible man.

  • @ichtube
    @ichtube3 жыл бұрын

    This might be one of his best talks.

  • @BraniG-psyc03
    @BraniG-psyc03Ай бұрын

    I adore him 🎉

  • @johnhelm6231
    @johnhelm62316 ай бұрын

    This was unmatched performance

  • @emersonfelipecardonasilva2785
    @emersonfelipecardonasilva2785 Жыл бұрын

    Chomsky is the GOAT

  • @mattblack118

    @mattblack118

    3 ай бұрын

    He's a senile moron

  • @carlitosgl
    @carlitosgl Жыл бұрын

    a genius, Chomsky

  • @mattblack118

    @mattblack118

    3 ай бұрын

    He\s a moron

  • @t33nyplaysp0p

    @t33nyplaysp0p

    3 ай бұрын

    @@mattblack118 He's* the master of linguistics. And you can't even use an apostrophe correctly

  • @mattblack118

    @mattblack118

    3 ай бұрын

    @@t33nyplaysp0p He's still a moron.

  • @martinezlopez4699
    @martinezlopez46993 жыл бұрын

    @ Uploader or other contributors; is there any way to upload this GREAT Video again in a HIGH resolution and MOST importantly though if the SUBTITLE could be added too

  • @zeinebbehim1556
    @zeinebbehim1556 Жыл бұрын

    So thankful for grasping some insights from such a great man!

  • @mattblack118

    @mattblack118

    3 ай бұрын

    He's a communist idiot

  • @ivannegri7724
    @ivannegri7724 Жыл бұрын

    The word house is a fantastically complex concept, involving abstract ideas of exterior and interior and an observers physiceal relation to those two states. A Some autistic people have singular visual representations of the category house, so if they imagine what houses look like they don't have a variety of possible exterior design structures to choose for internal representation, but rather a single house exemplar image. The cog. normative brain makes this same conceptual operation if you ask the normal person to visualize home; I find this interesting.

  • @AnHebrewChild

    @AnHebrewChild

    9 ай бұрын

    Can you explain your last sentence? You make a distinction between house and home (which, of course, there is) but you seem to suggest that "home" invokes a conceptual image in the 'normal' brain much like 'house' does in some autistics. This seems counter-intuitive to me. Did I read you correctly?

  • @ivannegri7724

    @ivannegri7724

    9 ай бұрын

    @@AnHebrewChild I sort of confused myself, I can only assume that I meant that for a non-autistic house is a particular that needs no singular mental representation, meaning everytime you think about a house you might very well think of a different house every time, but because home is your personal relationship to house, you have a sort of Platonic singular representation, for example my parents had several residences when I grew up, but I always associated home with one particular house, the house on Green meadow Dr. so for me that was representative of what the feeling of the word home invokes. Sorry about the confusing nature of my not well formulated thoughts.

  • @AnHebrewChild

    @AnHebrewChild

    9 ай бұрын

    @@ivannegri7724 Ah, now I get what you're getting at. Thank you for the explanation. The word 'platonic' there helped me out. Interesting idea that the non-autistic will unconsciously select a former residency, presumably one with the highest degree of imprinted emotions, to express the "HOME," that's very interesting. Whom should I credit this idea to? You or xyz famed psychologist? :D lmk

  • @edwardmurdoch5070
    @edwardmurdoch50702 жыл бұрын

    Lecture starts at 5:10

  • @mindsigh4

    @mindsigh4

    2 жыл бұрын

    geeze thank u ,opening statements are only good if u think sermons at church was foreplay

  • @edwardmurdoch5070

    @edwardmurdoch5070

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@mindsigh4 Amen!

  • @bryanl.morrison552
    @bryanl.morrison5525 жыл бұрын

    I'm very new to his work as a linguist, having only been exposed to his perspectives on politics and history (which I don't particularly agree with.) I am utterly stunned and impressed.

  • @dfghj241

    @dfghj241

    3 жыл бұрын

    lol you don't? so what you think its all wine and flowers?

  • @stevenhines5550

    @stevenhines5550

    3 жыл бұрын

    He's a pretty smart guy

  • @sansamman4619

    @sansamman4619

    2 жыл бұрын

    Just one thing to keep in mind, he has never made a wrong prediction when it comes to politics…

  • @TheLarousse89

    @TheLarousse89

    2 жыл бұрын

    Sorry for finding this 3 years later; I'm not sure how you could disagree with much of what he says. He cites sources and draws pictures around ideas that he's selling and then drills into the idea. He does it over and over. He also gives great context as to what/how/why everything operates the way it does now. Also his politics are literally let people self govern and don't kill people (that's dumbed down but I am pretty sure I've landed on the general essence)

  • @Saber23

    @Saber23

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@dfghj241 he just doesn’t agree with his political views

  • @Vifnis
    @Vifnis Жыл бұрын

    1:32:58 Oh, whoa.... 90min tape limit here!?

  • @mariagildesagredo8690
    @mariagildesagredo86906 күн бұрын

  • @nyworker
    @nyworker3 жыл бұрын

    I like Terence Deacon's ideas of absences. Linguistic expression and meanings are just as much about what is said vs what is not said in an expression.

  • @doreekaplan2589
    @doreekaplan258926 күн бұрын

    So much better visual without his current over long grey frizzled hair on his face. Hes a nice looking man. I can listen without watching the later ones. Appreciate all these talks and interviews with him. Thanksalot

  • @itssanti
    @itssanti3 жыл бұрын

    Descartes didnt make it to the top ten... That's astonishing

  • @nyworker
    @nyworker3 жыл бұрын

    At 1:14:30 Noam was having a language processing problem interfacing with the external environment. Somehow his brain figured it. Actually computer higher languages mimic brain processing by operations like pointers which are efficiancy tools.

  • @theinspector7882
    @theinspector788211 ай бұрын

    As long as there's no Theory of Everything we're just speculating on the properties of the brain and of the mind.

  • @grandmasterhiram
    @grandmasterhiram Жыл бұрын

    I'd say, normally, technology works 80% in favor of the skilled, whom are also the good, let's face it... Until money comes in, and it's 80% on them's favor. We need people of integrity.

  • @sadhanaidu5918
    @sadhanaidu5918 Жыл бұрын

    Academics, the curriculum dotter, gets reconfigured.

  • @noisepuppet
    @noisepuppet Жыл бұрын

    Skip the first 6:00 or so 😊

  • @waindayoungthain2147
    @waindayoungthain21472 жыл бұрын

    🙏🏻, if’s I cared for your mercy, I am only dusting, I have never seen anything about the senses and awareness one’s figured out how’s the world going with democratic catalyst, on the way of military made for independence, on the organization of world disruption in conflict without prosperity by the democratic on social disruption but egotistical 😊🙏🏻.

  • @debarshiarathdar7278
    @debarshiarathdar72783 жыл бұрын

    is it Lex Fridman at 1:20:33 ?

  • @polymathpark

    @polymathpark

    Жыл бұрын

    he would have been like 5 years old then..

  • @Noor-vv9sm
    @Noor-vv9sm11 ай бұрын

    Can someone tell me who is " Lennon " ,, because it doesn't make sense with Google search results.... 3:35

  • @zay7192

    @zay7192

    10 ай бұрын

    Vladimir Lenin

  • @pippop4693
    @pippop46932 жыл бұрын

    Just to get acquainted with the contrasting view, does anyone know what is the best overall refutation of Chomsky's ideas about language? Maybe Everett's? Is there a lecture where one can find a summary of the main criticisms to Chomsky's doctrine?

  • @mindsigh4

    @mindsigh4

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Pip pop_comic books & the bible

  • @polymathpark

    @polymathpark

    Жыл бұрын

    nope, chomsky is our guiding light in language. Wittgenstein went very far into language philosophy as well though, profound observations from both.

  • @ernststravoblofeld

    @ernststravoblofeld

    Жыл бұрын

    The thing is, he nailed it. Refutations never age well. Every once in a while someone finds a language that doesn't appear to have some minor thing he said was universal, but it turns out wrong or extremely nitpicky even for scientists. The main idea, that there's some a priori knowledge backing up the acquisition of language, is almost universally accepted.

  • @EuDouArteHipHopArtCulture21
    @EuDouArteHipHopArtCulture212 жыл бұрын

    1:25:20

  • @sahulianhooligan7046
    @sahulianhooligan7046 Жыл бұрын

    Rest in peace Noam

  • @niewiem3887

    @niewiem3887

    Жыл бұрын

    he didn't die

  • @4lynneterry

    @4lynneterry

    Жыл бұрын

    He’s still alive!

  • @fabiengerard8142

    @fabiengerard8142

    Жыл бұрын

    ?!?!?

  • @fluxo_musical

    @fluxo_musical

    Жыл бұрын

    9 months into your comment and Chomsky's still standing

  • @atheoma

    @atheoma

    7 ай бұрын

    @@fluxo_musicala year now, still there ❤‍🩹

  • @charleswood2182
    @charleswood2182 Жыл бұрын

    The fact of naming ceremonies means we are smart enough to know we can be named. That's a recognition which could be made independent of other communities and without saltation. If you look at folk history of California native Americans, first came name for me, then for you, then for direction, etc. That's a new technology. And naming ceremonies for teens is common. And also, In the beginning was the word.... is an abstract expression of how important worded expression became. In animistic religion, you get a name under cave art where the animals are god like. Now you get a name to place you in a community of likes. And once you have a name for yourself, art can flow as naming devices, educational devices for a new idea. Look at Anne Sullivan. Teaching a new technology to Helen. It spreads.

  • @ralluzarebon
    @ralluzarebonАй бұрын

    Alerts ocean

  • @waindayoungthain2147
    @waindayoungthain21472 жыл бұрын

    My Father’s 🙏🏻, I looked at what’s the any science of proof means to justifying what’s happening if’s to learn in combination, if’s I love linguistics and literature feel and science is fair or only the fact to proof😊🙏🏻, what’s ever if’s the manipulation cultures 😸. So sorry I feeling like the alien 👽😊🙏🏻.

  • @Mykaeil
    @Mykaeil3 жыл бұрын

    VVORLD WE LIVING IS NOA-H GOMSKY INTER-CEPTION____NOE PREVARA___NOVY PRVOPOCIATOK___THANK U NOE FOR NOE ARCHA NOE CIVIL ORDER___ AMEN

  • @terabyter9000
    @terabyter90008 ай бұрын

    ChatGPT enters the chat.

  • @waindayoungthain2147
    @waindayoungthain21472 жыл бұрын

    🙏🏻my Father’s I am only dust or the truth disturbing , it’s twisted in the Manufacture offensive, please. How’s the day going with thorns and fangs around on the products of earths’ propaganda rights, and violations please 🥺🙏🏻.

  • @iknownothingneonlights4284
    @iknownothingneonlights4284Ай бұрын

    Anyone how has listened with admiration Mr Noam Chomsky especially in America as an American citizens, while being able to vote and of a voting age, which has not voted for Donald Trump in the last two elections, does not understand a single word this gentleman speaks. Am I lying in stating that....?

  • @carlitosgl
    @carlitosgl Жыл бұрын

    I like it when he touches his neck, he does that kzread.info/dash/bejne/YpyupbGsga2eg8Y.html

  • @Worldlyknowledge7
    @Worldlyknowledge72 жыл бұрын

    If you want to listen to this man. 1.25x or 1.5x You're welcome

  • @vicvinegar845
    @vicvinegar84510 ай бұрын

    Wasn't this guy friends with epstein?

  • @thedivewithjacksonhinkle6999
    @thedivewithjacksonhinkle69992 жыл бұрын

    L

  • @sandorrabe5745
    @sandorrabe5745 Жыл бұрын

    What is this man blabbing about when talking about the "stable mental state" and the "input signal" being modulated to keep the system stable. 16:14 He seriously thinks we can put a bridle on that and start to manipulate the input signal to produce a state of euphoria and sell tickets to the public who'd like a dose of that. I pass thanks mate.

  • @atheoma

    @atheoma

    7 ай бұрын

    ahahahahahahahah

  • @ainstolkiner2063
    @ainstolkiner20633 ай бұрын

    just silly

  • @martinkennedy2400
    @martinkennedy2400 Жыл бұрын

    ...Chomsky defines boredom

  • @mindsigh4

    @mindsigh4

    Жыл бұрын

    timestamp?

  • @christopherhamilton3621

    @christopherhamilton3621

    10 ай бұрын

    Your response defines wilful incomprehensibility.

  • @MrRalph2000
    @MrRalph20002 ай бұрын

    Language is unusable? Only beautiful?! Really??? Some strange elements just at the end...

  • @alexadam6998

    @alexadam6998

    Ай бұрын

    What is thought?

  • @ansschapendonk4560
    @ansschapendonk45603 жыл бұрын

    Chomsky, a nice man, but not someone who did really understand the soundhelix (klankhelix, Lauthelix), rediscovered by Ans Schapendonk. Now, the university of Leiden did present this 'Language as a timemachine' which is the Oracle of Delphi, men never did study seriously. Ausgerechnet die deutschen Universitäten mischen sich hier ein, während die Professoren hier Plagiat betreiben (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Deutsche Sprachatlas, Jürgen Erich Schmidt. Zitat: "Zu Frauen die mir nichts zu sagen haben, spreche ich nicht"! Eben, hält den Mund, weil Männer, im Gegensatz zu den Hohepriesterinnen, überhaupt nichts von Sprache verstanden haben.

  • @mattblack118

    @mattblack118

    3 ай бұрын

    Chomsky, is not a "nice man". He would of jailed people for not taking covid vaccines. He is a living piece of shit as are all that think like him.

  • @user-zu6kj8fv2w
    @user-zu6kj8fv2w4 жыл бұрын

    I have a hard time listening to Noam Chomsky, he talks so slow and he makes the most drawn out points without really painting a rich narrative. Big ADHD.

  • @BenVPulgar

    @BenVPulgar

    4 жыл бұрын

    1674 that’s actually what I like about Chomsky! He sort of fills all the holes. It’s not fancy and shiny to lure speakers but the way he explains things, is just wow

  • @touatitbelkais6072

    @touatitbelkais6072

    3 жыл бұрын

    omg how dare you say that about chomsky lol

  • @mindsigh4

    @mindsigh4

    2 жыл бұрын

    @1674_thank u , a musician he aint, over due for the Heimlich maneuver. even tho he's clearer here than most,his style is annoying. are the books less stodgy?