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(extended version) oDK0kJSvRm8.en.cnt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,1024 +0,0 @@ -[Music] -this is not only a South birthday card -but also a sound thank you card for -being one of our elders and for having -voice of clarity and incisiveness I mean -sometimes a very consuming map of ideas -put by different systems as they crank -their power your writers have been -refreshing uplifting and humanistic -there's helping us in what some call the -cooking of the soul a few more knots -trapped if you like as a very small -dusting of Earth -[Music] -so for me the most important scientific -contribution that noam chomsky is made -over his career is just the idea that -syntax exists that can't be reduced to -probabilities and it can't be reduced -meaning when I was 16 I won some kind of -a prize at school and with the prize -money I bought this very copy of -syntactic structures I didn't really -understand much of it but actually the -basic core idea I just mentioned has -stayed with me and it's formed the -foundation of my intellectual career -ever since so thank you for that idea -Noam and happy birthday -among them see numerable contributions -that would certainly count the fact that -language is a human cognitive capacity -and not just a cultural object -the fact that the organization of syntax -is ironical and not linear if a third -language is fairy but their variation is -much more limited than meets the eye -we're talking quit Nam I always had a -very very special feeling of being able -to look beyond once talking with Maurey -salad -I discovered that I share that very -rewarding to me this is Tom ever there -are three important aspects of found -Noam has made continual revolutionary -contributions to the language and -cognitive sciences contributions that -radiates to many other sciences first he -has a deep analytic capacity to explore -the unconscious sources of what is -conscious knowledge second he doggedly -builds models of the structure of those -processes changing his mind over time -searching for the simplest description -of the essence of language making it -possible to suggest why language is the -way it is finally he has the gift of -clarity of expression making very clear -the structure of complex investigations -and ideas Noam Chomsky will always be -known for his work in linguistics -however Chomsky's most significant -contributions to science include -explaining and exemplifying how science -and philosophy -together science and philosophy are -distinct yet inextricably interconnected -each with characteristic roles questions -and methods this picture is perceivable -in immanuel kant's prolegomena -that is philosophy acts as a rudder that -steers the sciences so is employing one -of the alternatives about the other a -good bet thank you and happy birthday no -best wishes to you for this very special -birthday -and let me add how grateful all of us -are to you for setting for the first -time ever the study of language on a -scientific base bye bye see you language -defines us but we didn't know how much -we know about language until Noam -Chomsky woke us up discovering and -making us discover the beauty of the -little details of how language works -Noam is also a magnificent example that -science and political intervention are -not separate world's healthy democracies -need critical thinking and knowledge -thank you known for all the wake-up -calls -nobody's perfect -and we would like to thank you very much -for all you do -in particular I feel like I want to -thank you for your message about the -responsibility towards the intellectuals -and towards science not just that you -are yourself an intellectual but that -you fight for the freedom in research -and for the freedom of scientists that's -very valuable and we also would like to -thank you for setting a model of -responsibility at the kind of micro -level so not of just being very -courageous in the outside world but also -doing seemingly simple things like -answering emails by whoever is afar you -have answered my emails sometimes if -answers my students -sometimes and I think when I get emails -from people fellow citizens asking me -something many people would say well I'm -not going to answer this again I try to -follow your model but I'm sure you get -100,000 times more emails and questions -and all kinds of requests than me I -don't know how you do it but this is -very inspiring so happy birthday well -comply and no Deepika figured Osman -realmente famosos se puede fumar -tambien Kayne cambiado nuestra visioned -la realidad como que nos dijo a CC blows -que la tierra no Arup Lana Chomsky es -una de estas figure --is super insane en -toda linguistically philosophic oh do -heroes estancia's Alice to do de -lenguaje al situational Tirreno del -explication scientifica de la mente -umana -las Ciencias humanas modernist le Devin -una commotion intellectual simper and -goal -felicidades professor Chomsky is a -greeting from Universidad Nacional , -we're here in Patagonia Argentina we -really want to thank you professor -Chomsky for your contributions and -inspiration in our graduate program in -linguistics so on behalf of all our -colleagues here in Patagonia we really -want to wish you a happy birthday you -professor Chomsky it is my pleasure to -wish you a happy birthday -both your linguistic and political work -have inspired me for years now we have -proven that all human beings share the -most sophisticated way of cognition -language this is the best argument I've -ever heard of for equality you have made -among others my career meaningful I -respect you and I respect your work -deeply thank you know -felicidades not Chomsky's twin greatest -legacies are first he began to explain -to us nature's greatest tool for -connecting the mind with the world that -is -a human language and second he began to -explain to us nature's great tool for -deciphering these systems you know the -guises they take in the natural -languages of the world that is the human -infant and for these two reasons -I take Chomsky as the greatest living -psychologist of language and therefore -the greatest linguist of our era so -happy birthday Noam Chomsky carbonatites -nice to eat as hygienic on camera -okay Ning and Legolas then cognitively -re ki-moon thank you a massage good -ohana common among there oh thank you -you can go go you own Erica today -can't you stick it up Thibodeaux she's -got a debate about this again what can -old Kentucky I get those like us so -Chomsky's greatest contribution to -science you mean besides inventing -modern linguistics and leading the -charge against behaviorism well-posed -Ides these two small achievements his -greatest contribution in my opinion has -been rejecting methodological dualism -and arguing that empirical and -theoretical work in the mental sciences -should be judged by the very same -criteria as work in the physical -sciences Chomsky has powerfully made -this obvious point for over 60 years -but sadly it is still can they do you -know any games so scared Ganga cool oh -my son Ahmad Shah mosquito is I know to -me the most important contribution of -your work to science is the change that -it made and how we saw language itself -my own background was social -anthropology which long did lie -language is an aspect of culture human -invention like tool-making or -agriculture you along with Lana Berg and -Holly changed all that you brought us to -see language as a part of the natural -world and with that shift everything -shifted with it -language learning became language -ontogeny language typology became -comparative anatomy language history -became language evolution and language -disappearance became language extinction -linguistics lives in a new world now and -we have you to thank for it so happy -birthday and Mazel Tov hi this is Howard -last me know I know how you hate anyone -to make any kind of personal fuss about -you but it's your 90th that's a biggie -you're gonna have to grin and bear at -this done it has to comment on Noam -Chomsky's contributions to science the -biggie is that he contributed the -linguistics to science he showed how -observable phenomena and language are -just a faint hint of what's really going -on beneath the surface the principal -explanatory theories can and must be -developed based on unobservable as in -other Natural Sciences underlying versus -superficial structure mental -computations relating these etc he -taught us to question the obvious and -his famous exchange with Hilary Putnam -at the 1975 Vermont event Putnam -rejected gnomes innate in this argument -based on structure dependence claiming -that no sane person ever has or ever -would put forth an on structure -dependent version of question formation -based just on strings of words rather -than structured strings gnomes response -was that is quite true but exactly what -we want to explain words to live by when -I was a student I told my friends I was -interested in the thought of Noam -Chomsky and I remember that they asked -me which one of the two the linguist or -the activist after I met him I realized -that there was not two Chomsky's but -three and the third Chomsky is the one -who cares for each and every student's -treating them as peers and tried to do -his best for them to reach their goals -and their dreams in the intellectual -words of linguistics -Kankuro so naughty Hajime toaster King -Kyoto so I can pick their cuts cook so -soon again denis leary luminousness -dango aqua can watch a skill Kang tae -Joon she must na kehna wakamatsu-kun wha -- masking application of a tater eonni -he was a cadet on a solution in -tyrannical tango Chi skinny three toes -it's made it all coach the katana re -must understand the thinkin you can walk -away cocked or second bow to me panelist -I first met through salvador luria -nobel prize one of the founders of -modern biology at the MIT who was at the -time sharing with known a group of -linguists and biologists I was at the -time and biophysicist and molecular -biologist working at the institut -pasteur under the guidance of another -Nobel Prize Jack Malone -who was a great friend and great admirer -of Laurium so learning from Lorien that -he was a great friend and great admired -of Nam Chomsky I was intrigued -during the Raymond debate that I had the -privilege of organizing the debate -between norm Chomsky and Jean Piaget -I was impressed by the rigor of norms -arguments and I was captured by -generative grammar there and then and -ever since -Lauria wisely said that the best way to -characterize a scientific domain is to -look at the ten top experiments in the -field I think this applies to generative -grammar as well it would be an -interesting challenge for us to isolate -and determine which are the ten -fundamental sentences or sentence pairs -that have shaped generative grammar all -the way from colorless green ideas sleep -furiously -- which of his picture did they persuade -the museum that every painter knives -best finding an agreeing on these ten -sentences would be I think a very good -way to wish know a very happy 90th -birthday no George right here although -you and I have had our differences over -the years I hope you realize there is -nothing compared to the great admiration -I have for your work with scientific and -political your ideas about the structure -of the minds you need the best anyone's -ever had and your political commentaries -are well certainly more serious northern -forum to the standard fair -happy birthday and many happy returns -one outstanding achievement has been the -shift of focus from product of latter's -behavior to the study of a specific -cognitive system underlying their -behavior from the early days of the -jitter of enterprise transformational -rules were viewed as a necessary -complication to enema crystal chills one -important recent result therefore is the -grand unification of decimation of -displacement with three structural -continuity under a single common -attorney operation just summation -features turn out to be the NMR case of -this unification it follows that no -language can be human language that is -not transformation there's a lot of -techno before congratulations and a -happy birthday to you it is true that -the weekend Stein managed to lecture -about what philosophy is in three -minutes but I think that characterizing -norms contributions in a few seconds is -even harder so I will not even try let -me just say that after many many -appointments that I was lucky enough to -have over the years with norm and going -back home full of enthusiasm about the -new ideas that the marriage then that we -had discussed together -my thoughts naturally went to the -contemporaries of the founding father -of modern science and those who have the -opportunity to discuss with Galileo or -with Newton with Darwin and I saw that I -was lucky I thought that my generation -is lucky and many many generations have -are lucky to have the opportunity to -discuss with know about language and -mind so we should all be grateful to -norm for offering us this extraordinary -opportunity of thinking about language -and about mind in a completely new way -so happy birthday norm and thank you -Noam Chomsky has given us a new way of -thinking about language a human mind -language acquisition and so many other -things which are absolutely vital to our -understanding of ourselves as human -beings I believe that he is truly giving -us a novel way of understanding the -nature of human nature the nature of -ourselves -I know happy 90th birthday Wow -what one individual could do in 90 years -really change the course of a discipline -in fact many many disciplines is just -simply amazing -I couldn't resist coming to your old -stomping grounds as you can see behind -me I'm in town as I usually end this -time of year for the BU CLD conference -they asked us to mention your most -important contribution at least in our -view and there are so many to choose -from it's it seems an impossible task to -mention just one so let me be very -abstract about it which is what I want -to thank you for the overarching view -that you've given us a program that -you've given us to think abstract ly -about language to add scientific inquiry -and scientific methodology into language -- to have straightaway at the time or to -rebuked the the then-current idea of -what was taken as a truth about language -about the mind in general -thank you for challenging us to think -abstract ly thank you for challenging us -to move the study of linguistics into -the modern age of science and to in -doing so understand its characteristics -happy birthday -Thanks gnomes important contribution is -science follows from his contribution to -linguistics Noah's major impact in the -field of linguistics came from -championing formal mathematical grammars -as a characterization of a speaker's -unconscious knowledge this approach -spread quickly to other disciplines and -allows possibility of cooperation and -integration between disciplines we're -still seeing this unfold both in -research that takes a critical view of -gnomes work as well as research that -supports particular aspects of his -claims this is no one say is to be -expected he's always claimed that you -need to be wary of your assumptions when -creating a model consider the -mathematical consequences these can -guide you to new observations are -convince you to change course when I -arrived at MIT as a student I was told -if you believe anything we teach you -here it's your own fault Chomsky has -shown us that there's really only one -human language the bewildering -complexity of the wilds of linguistic -riches simply illustrates variation on a -single theme he's used this insight to -cause further light on the nature of the -human mind from modularity to innate -Ness and he's done this while diverting -equal amount of time to relentless -descent providing us with a means of -intellectual self defense against all -forms of authority -thanks now Kara professor Chomsky Samuel -ranitidine II in academia -the rest had you tested volume of Varla -in a thermal area by element is no -complain no semi contained TD patella -BRE questo video per kg per minute -during a table Paris any internal -suspense of milling whistie -SUNY political mean freedom of judgment -sued annoying -Russian TV cheetah case approach Oh a -data loss to the della lingua la -capacitance Escriva ray -more Socrates or phenomena Medici Ella -possibility' accompany me to the command -uncle Illingworth two diverse gratzi -professor Chomsky Abraham no no I'm -emphasized Plato's problem how come we -know so much with so little evidence he -also emphasized Orwell's problem how -come there being so much evidence around -us we have a hard time reaching somewhat -obvious conclusions and to me the -biggest contribution was how he -emphasized the connection between the -two are we going to be able to ever -address Plato's problem if we don't -provide a solution to our walls I don't -know the answer but that's where the -torch is and came from norm we're going -to try to pass it on I submit that dope -Chomsky's greatest contribution to -science is in fact in the making quite -literally -at present he and I and my colleagues -are working to encode the principles and -procedures of generative grammar into an -artificial intelligence so as to create -artificial general intelligence indeed -Chomsky and I argue that human style -general intelligence emerges from -language so if we succeed in creating -artificial general intelligence it would -be the most important event in the -history of the world possibly the -universe duuude professor Chomsky it is -my pleasure to wish you a happy birthday -both your linguistic and political work -have inspired me for years now we have -proven that all human beings share the -most sophisticated way of cognition -language this is the best argument I've -ever heard of for equality you have made -among others my career meaningful I -respect you and I respect your work -Wheatley Thank You Noah -felicidades know what is language how -can it be described how is it possible -to understand this human specific trait -most important contribution -Noam Chomsky to science as in to show -that the syntax of language any language -of the world can be described in term of -a simple binary and recursive operation -that applies to syntactic constituent -combines them and displace them from his -earlier work in material formal grammar -and the autonomy of syntax to his -current work in minimalism Noam Chomsky -has developed a research program on -language science the free search program -enables the discovery of our innate -knowledge of language it enables the -formulation of testable hypothesis and -prediction about the property of human -language it also enabled research on -language acquisition language variation -and also so lead to the understanding of -language as a product of human biology -that is as a product of the human -computational brain happy 90th -anniversary No -you -6 -24 -27 -31 -33 -36 -39 -42 -45 -48 -51 -55 -58 -62 -79 -82 -84 -86 -89 -90 -93 -95 -98 -100 -102 -104 -106 -108 -110 -112 -115 -116 -119 -121 -123 -126 -128 -130 -133 -136 -140 -140 -142 -148 -151 -154 -156 -159 -163 -165 -168 -172 -174 -177 -179 -182 -184 -187 -190 -193 -197 -199 -201 -203 -206 -207 -210 -213 -216 -218 -221 -224 -228 -229 -235 -238 -239 -243 -247 -250 -256 -257 -259 -261 -264 -266 -269 -271 -274 -276 -279 -289 -291 -293 -294 -297 -299 -302 -305 -309 -311 -314 -318 -321 -324 -326 -328 -330 -333 -335 -337 -341 -345 -348 -351 -353 -356 -359 -361 -365 -369 -372 -374 -378 -381 -383 -386 -388 -390 -393 -393 -397 -399 -400 -402 -405 -408 -410 -412 -416 -420 -422 -426 -428 -429 -431 -434 -436 -438 -441 -444 -446 -449 -451 -455 -462 -466 -470 -470 -476 -481 -486 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