Thursday, January 19, 2023

Surprised and puzzled

The miracle that so amazed Galileo and Arnauld —
        and still amazes me, I can’t understand it —
            is how can we, with a few symbols,
                    convey to others the inner workings of our mind?
That’s something to really be surprised about, and puzzled by.
        And we have some grasp of it, but not a lot.

                                Noam Chomsky, The Secrets of Words 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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