Yesterday, I blogged about how some of the latest findings in language usage are dialing back past claims about the degree of the brain's modularity.
More on that today; it appears that language usage by the brain is more of a kluge, or "workaround," than has previously been understood.
It probably undercuts, again, claims to human "rationality," too. I'm thinking more and more the old Enlightenment duality between "rational" and "irrational" needs evaluation and modification.
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one good thing I like about chomsky is that he says if we believe now what we believed 20 years ago in linguistics, the field would be dead...
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