Epstein asks why we wouldn't expect auditory grammar to be a mutation of the visual grammar system, noting children aren't taught to see.
An email thread from December 24, 2015, between Jeffrey Epstein and Noam Chomsky. They discuss the cognitive differences between visual processing and language acquisition, with Chomsky explaining that language is an internal system of knowledge while vision is an input system. Epstein argues about 'software' vs 'hardware' in visual processing.
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