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Noam Chomsky: Language, Cognition, and Deep Learning

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Limits of Human Cognition

We just impose a conception of the world in terms of geometric, perfect geometric objects. If you show on a tecistoscope, let's say a couple of lights shining, you do it three or four times in a row,. what people actually see is a rigid object in motion. So that gives us hints of potential limits to our cognition. I think it does, but it's a very contested view. We can understand anything. But if you do a poll among scientists, it's impossible.

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