From: Ehud Barak
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2015 5:09 AM
To: Jeffrey E.
Subject: Re:

## Hi Jeff

As of now we plan to=be in NY around August 25. We plan to work on my biography with the editor.=Probably starting Sept 1st. But it's all flexible till Sept 11and on, when=l have my speeches and other events. Best

EB
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On Aug 10, 2015, at 03:25, jeffrey E. &=t;jeevacation@gmail.com <mailtoleevacation@gmail.com» wr=te:

Correct on cube . Do you kn=w what date yet in August ?

On Sunday, August 9, 2015, E=ud Barak <blackened out> &g=; wrote:

Hi Jeff

I really find it amusing. I don't agree with everything he says. But= it is fascinating. BB is making "historic mistakes"(as he likes to bl=me others) both vis-a-vis Obama as well as in regard to the American Jewry.=And causes a direct damage to IL.

Noam is so sharp and focu=ed. Really impressive.

I did not fully understand how the f=llacy he sees in the attitude to the Ants example is related to Big Data il=usions. An area (deep learning) I spent some time recently trying to better=penetrate.

Btw, the series of cubic differences should look 7,19,=7,61(not 21). We greatly enjoyed staying in 62nd. We plan to be back in the last week of Aug. for several weeks (havin= some speeches to make) will you still be in NM? If pos=tive we might come over for few days. PI let us know. =/div> Best From Nili as well. Regards E=

Sent from my iPhone

On Aug 8= 2015, at 22:05, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com <javascript:_e("%7B%7D",'cvml','jee=acation@gmail.com');>> wrote=

## Hi Jeff (cont.)

thought you m=ght find amusing

Forwarded me=sage ---------
From: Noam Chomsky <■
1)=>>

Date: Fri, Aug 7, 201= at 11:57 PM Subject: RE: Re: To: "jeffrey E." <jeevacatio=@gmail.com>

Neat indeed.

I’m writing about the Iran deal= So far have only sent a form paragraph in response to requests.

I’m writing about the Iran deal= So far have only sent a form paragraph in response to requests.

= Below.

Noam

</=>

On Iran, as usual, IQ=80Qm a gloomy contrarian. I'm glad the treaty was signed, a=d it's kind of fun to watch the Republican lunatics shrieking hyste=ically as they try to kill it (as they may). And Israeli hypocrisy has gone well beyond being comical. But in fact the whole thing is fa=cical, in my opinon. In the US, Iran is "the greatest threat t= world peace", intoned constantly from on high, in the media, every=here. There is also such a thing as world opinion, as measured by such ultra-radicals as Gallup. It turns out that the grea=est threat to world peace is the US, by a very wide margin, no one else eve= close, and Iran barely mentioned. The American population is protect=d from these unwanted facts by the Free Press: not reported. There is an organization called US intelligence.=nbsp; They brief Congress regularly on the international security situation= all quite public. On Iran, they point out that it has very limited m=litary power, even by regional standards (a small fraction of Saudi Arabia, for example). Its strategic doctrine i= defensive. If — a big If — it has plans for nuclear w=apons, that would be part of its deterrent strategy. Now who would be=opposed to Iran having a deterrent strategy? Answer is clear: the rogue states that rampage violently in the region and don't wan= any impediment: the US and Israel, also lesser ones like UK and France.&nb=p; One simple way to reduce the threat of nuclear weapons would be to estab=ish a nuclear-weapons free zone in the region, as has been done elsewhere (over US objections). That's been a=vocated by the Arab states for 20 years, with very wide global support, inc=uding Iran. It comes up regularly at the 5-year review meetings of th= Nonproliferation Treaty, at the UN, again a few months ago, when, again, it was blocked by the US to protect its Israel= client, which has a huge nuclear weapons arsenal and wants to keep it.&nbs=; Again, the population is protected from such facts by the Free Press (tho=gh in this case there are some fringe exceptions, and of course the Arms Control literature). Same with the=rest of the litany. Reading the US and UK press is like living in som= lunatic asylum. I'm wondering whether to write about it Q=93 again; have done so repeatedly. It's like talking to a wall. Iran has an awful government, though by the standards of such=US allies as Saudi Arabia, it's practically heaven.

=/u>
Nevertheless, better to=have the treaty than not to, given the nature of the asylum.<=span>

## Hi Jeff (cont.)

Noam

From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevac=tion@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2015 3:36 PM
To: Noam Chomsky <████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████');> >
Subject: Re: Re:

the mathematical model. is quite beautiful,&nbs=; though the basic rules are simple , o=ce they have run over and over again, and produced a result you cann=t tease them out by any form of reductionism. or al=orithm, just like the series 7- 21 -37... cannot be found by alogrithm, i= is simply the difference of cubes, . &=bsp; Have you written about the iran deal?

On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Noam Chomsky <██████████> wrote:

What you suggest is very much the model=that has been current in the behavioral sciences for many years. It has a record of colossal failure, and for good reasons, I think. l='s disproven, but keeps coming back, most recently with Big Data il=usions.

A child doesn't grow arms and l=gs rather than wings, or a mammalian vs insect visual system, the way an ant searches for food. Rather, the path of development is sharply r=stricted (and evolution follows constraints too). Acquisition o= language (and other cognitive achievements) seems very much like physical g=owth.

Highly contentious in the field, but in=my opinion that’s a comment on the failures of
the field.=/u>

From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevac=tion@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2015 12:44 PM
To: Noam Chomsky <██████████████████
<████████████████████████████████████);> >
Subject: Re: Re:

## Hi Jeff (cont.)

ants and evolution work by trying things and finding t=e best solution.   math and
physics works by algorith=s. Im suggesting that maybe just as a child sends out many connection= and then discards the
unused might be a better template for biological thin=ing.

On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Noam Chomsky <█████████████> wrote:

There were plenty of warnings about one=currency. Not heeded, unfortunately.

Appreciate the invitation, but leisure time? Is that an English phrase=

OK for ants, but don't see how i= helps us.

Noam

From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevac=tion@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2015 10:28 AM
To: Noam Chomsky <██████████████
<███████████████████████████');> >
Subject: Re:

bad for them , g=od for you. no need to have only one currency, its old
fa=hioned. . you are of course welcome to use apt in new york with your n=w leisure time, or visit new Mexico again.

ants find the shortest route to food, by trying many a=d discarding what doesn't
work, no algorithm. , no input or output , o=ly a goal. . sounds closer to our probem

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 8:15 AM, Noam Chomsky <████████████████> wrote:

Bad news. We decided not to go.&n=sp; I was invited to talk at the Parliament, but what can one say? Th=t aside, they've got plenty of people giving them bad advice.<=>

From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevac=tion@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2015 7:48 PM
To: Noam Chomsky <████████████████████████
<███████████████████████████████████████████;> >
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## Hi Jeff (cont.)

Only go to Greece if you feel well , I just had to se=d my plane to bring another lefty friend back from Athens to see a Jew=doctor in New York .

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