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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 23 Mar 2016

    My critique (w Ray Jackendoff) of Chomsky's evolutionary views.http://goo.gl/qJfZfV 

    1:51 PM - 23 Mar 2016
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      1. Swiftgineer‏ @CharlesAstorDev 24 Mar 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker Could you write a critique on his political views? I would be interested in what you have to say. @sapinker

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      1. susan silver‏ @suz_8 23 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker way above my understanding but he is not someone I admire and feel he is of course anti Israel so I don't read him

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      2. Richard Savage‏ @Richard79360562 23 Mar 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker I once submitted a commentary entitled "Electromagnetic Linguistics" to him for his opinion and he claimed he was not qualified!

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      3. Richard Savage‏ @Richard79360562 23 Mar 2016
        Replying to @Richard79360562

        @sapinker My commentary claimed that everything, even all language, is physical, everything physical is electromagnetic, linguistics also.

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      4. Richard Savage‏ @Richard79360562 23 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker I claimed that the physical language of the universe, including our physical language, is a matter of electromagnetic language!

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      5. Richard Savage‏ @Richard79360562 23 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker It's hard to deny, when all of our information, in terms of language, is being conveyed electromagnetically by technology! Tweets!

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      6. Richard Savage‏ @Richard79360562 24 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker The fact is; that our practice of language in the past was always a matter of physical nature and electromagnetism at work also!

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      1. neurobanter‏ @neurobanter 26 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker Children exposed to more brain-harming chemicals than ever before via.

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      1. Andreas Kroksgård‏ @AKroksgard 24 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker i think Chomsky's view is also piecemeal; he's speculating on the central piece though. You're just saying "it was evolution". Duh

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      1. Dawn. A. Alderson‏ @dawn_alderson 23 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker 2/2 it is worth examining outliers apparent in those children recognised across autistic spec. Lang systems are an ordered build

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      1. Dawn. A. Alderson‏ @dawn_alderson 23 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker 1/2 re: paper, It seems there is scope for further investigation about Syntax. Children order the chaos in learning a language

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      2. Flynn‏ @cmdlineprompt 23 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker Does this make hermeneutics an epigenetic concept? Is abstraction a finite path to truth? Do archetypes evolve? #respect

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      3. Richard Savage‏ @Richard79360562 23 Mar 2016
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        @cmdlineprompt @sapinker Those are big questions? Got any answers? I know, that's another question!

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      1. David Enard‏ @DavidEnard 23 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker note that FOXP2 evidence is very weak. What if we find FOXP2 adaptation in non-human primates? -->http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1000840 …

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      1. Pablo Petrucci‏ @pabpetrucci 23 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker sounds interesting

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      1. Wow_ThatsLame‏ @Wow_ThatsLame 23 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker Chomsky's view of language vis a vis evolution is fanciful by my understanding.

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