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== His Science Error == |
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He is heard in his own words to make an erroneous statement in a matter of science, recently on BookTV, a C-SPAN2 program <ref> BookTV, C-SPAN2, Sat Nov 22, 2014 </ref>, during Q&A the last questions: |
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He was asked about the origin of life and correctly identified RNA/ DNA molecular organisms as earliest life forms, but then a minute later (or perhaps earlier) stated on the mystery of language, its origin being unknown. |
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This is plainly a simple error of fact, especially in the situational context. By general understanding about [[formal language]] theory, the [[nucleotide]] code spells out a language, one in which is recorded the grand narrative of our [[genome]], & of protein synthesis in the [[ribosome]] machine having this RNA/ DNA alphabet based processing language. |
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As has been known to science since [[Chomsky]] and others, including precursors, our so-called `natural` spoken vernacular languages are produced by computational algorithms imbedded in the brain's architecture with its own internal machine language, probably multi-level as we may find out to be the case eventually. This should be seen as a non-controversial explanation of fact, increasingly so seen not only in the mathematical and computer sciences, but in science at large and in view of the explosive development of formal language theory since the early 20th century. See recent article in PNAS <ref> Christos Papadimitriou (2014), 'Algorithms, Complexity, and the Sciences', PNAS early ed Oct 27 2014.</ref> This seems to be an initial paper in a new NAS series, authored by a member of NAS. |
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The author of [[The Selfish Gene]] surely is aware of the gene as a passage in a book written in the oldest coding system, the one provided to planet Earth by cosmic intelligence . . |
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He is not alone among non-mathematically trained scientists with this odd confusion. Gerald Edelman in his Nobel interview <ref>Gerald Edelman, Nobel Foundation Interview (2009), YouTube. </ref> opines language was invented by humans in the last 100,000 years, Edelman, genetecist expert on nucleotide genome. He speaks the words, in an almost inaudible voice, "natural language." [[User:Skeptiker|hgwb]] ([[User talk:Skeptiker|talk]]) 19:26, 24 November 2014 (UTC) |
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Editor: Please do not continue to delete. My complaint about your POV editing would be forthcoming.
His Science Error
He is heard in his own words to make an erroneous statement in a matter of science, recently on BookTV, a C-SPAN2 program [1], during Q&A the last questions:
He was asked about the origin of life and correctly identified RNA/ DNA molecular organisms as earliest life forms, but then a minute later (or perhaps earlier) stated on the mystery of language, its origin being unknown.
This is plainly a simple error of fact, especially in the situational context. By general understanding about formal language theory, the nucleotide code spells out a language, one in which is recorded the grand narrative of our genome, & of protein synthesis in the ribosome machine having this RNA/ DNA alphabet based processing language.
As has been known to science since Chomsky and others, including precursors, our so-called `natural` spoken vernacular languages are produced by computational algorithms imbedded in the brain's architecture with its own internal machine language, probably multi-level as we may find out to be the case eventually. This should be seen as a non-controversial explanation of fact, increasingly so seen not only in the mathematical and computer sciences, but in science at large and in view of the explosive development of formal language theory since the early 20th century. See recent article in PNAS [2] This seems to be an initial paper in a new NAS series, authored by a member of NAS.
The author of The Selfish Gene surely is aware of the gene as a passage in a book written in the oldest coding system, the one provided to planet Earth by cosmic intelligence . .
He is not alone among non-mathematically trained scientists with this odd confusion. Gerald Edelman in his Nobel interview [3] opines language was invented by humans in the last 100,000 years, Edelman, genetecist expert on nucleotide genome. He speaks the words, in an almost inaudible voice, "natural language." hgwb (talk) 19:26, 24 November 2014 (UTC)