<table><tr><th>From:</th><th>jeffrey E. &lt;jeevacation@gmail.com&gt;</th></tr><tr><td>Sent:</td><td>Saturday, August 8, 2015 7:06 PM</td></tr><tr><td>To:</td><td>ehud barak</td></tr><tr><td>Subject:</td><td>Fwd: Re:</td></tr></table>

thought you might find amusing

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From: Noam Chomsky
Date: Fri, Aug 7, 2015 a <change><s>: =</s></change>
Subject: RE: Re:
To: "jeffrey E." <jeevacation@gmail.com>

Neat indeed.

I'm writing about the Iran de=l. So far have only sent a form paragraph in response to requests.=C2 Below.

Noam

=/u>

On Iran, as usual, I=E2 m a gloomy contrarian. I'm glad the treaty was signe=, and it's kind of fun to watch the Republican lunatics shrieking =ysterically as they try to kill it (as they may). And Israeli hypocr=sy has gone well beyond being comical. But in fact the whole thing is f=rcical, in my opinon. In the US, Iran is "the greatest threa= to world peace", intoned constantly from on high, in the media, ererywhere. There is also such a thing as world opinion, as measured by such ultra-radicals as Gallup. It turns out that the gre=test threat to world peace is the US, by a very wide margin, no one else e=en close, and Iran barely mentioned. The American population is prot=cted from these unwanted facts by the Free Press: not reported. There is an organization called US intelligence= They brief Congress regularly on the international security situati=n, all quite public. On Iran, they point out that it has very limite= military power, even by regional standards (a small fraction of Saudi Arabia, for example). Its strategic doctrine=is defensive. If — a big If — it has plans for nucle=r weapons, that would be part of its deterrent strategy. Now who wou=d be opposed to Iran having a deterrent strategy? Answer is clear: the rogue states that rampage violently in the region and don't wa=t any impediment: the US and Israel, also lesser ones like UK and France.=C2 One simple way to reduce the threat of nuclear weapons would be to e=tablish a nuclear-weapons free zone in the region, as has been done elsewhere (over US objections). That's been=advocated by the Arab states for 20 years, with very wide global support, =ncluding Iran. It comes up regularly at the 5-year review meetings o= the Nonproliferation Treaty, at the UN, again a few months ago, when, again, it was blocked by the US to protect its Israe=i client, which has a huge nuclear weapons arsenal and wants to keep it.=C2 Again, the population is protected from such facts by the Free Press=(though in this case there are some fringe exceptions, and of course the Arms Control literature). Same with th= rest of the litany. Reading the US and UK

press is like living in s=me lunatic asylum. I'm wondering whether to write about it =E2 again; have done so repeatedly. It's like talking t= a wall. Iran has an awful government, though by the standards of suc= US allies as Saudi Arabia, it's practically heaven.

Nevertheless, better t= have the treaty than not to, given the nature of the asylum.

</=pan>

Noam

From: Jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.comj
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2015 3:36 PM
To: Noam Chomsky
Subject: Re: Re:

the mathematical model. is quite beautiful, =AO though the basic rules are simple , =once they have run over and over again, and produced a result you c=nnot tease them out by any form of reductionism. o= algorithm, just like the series 7- 21 -37... cannot be found by alogrithm, =t is simply the difference of cubes, . =AO Have you written about the iran deal?

On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Noam Chomsky =rote:

What you suggest is very much the mod=l that has been current in the behavioral sciences for many years. It has a record of colossal failure, and for good reasons, I think. =t's disproven, but keeps coming back, most recently with Big Data =llusions.

A child doesn't grow arms and=legs rather than wings, or a mammalian vs insect visual system, the way an ant searches for food. Rather, the path of development is sharply=restricted (and evolution follows constraints too). Acquisitio= of language (and other cognitive achievements) seems very much like physi=al growth.

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

From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2015 12:44 PM
To: Noam Chomsky
Subject: Re: Re:

ants and evolution work by trying things and finding=the best solution. math and physics works by algor=thms. Im suggesting that maybe just as a child sends out many connec=ions and then discards the unused might be a better template for biological thi=king.

On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Noam Chomsky a> =rote:

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

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

OK for ants, but don't see ho= it helps us.

Noam

From: Jeffrey E. [mailto:Jeevacation@gmail.comj
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2015 10:28 AM
To: Noam Chomsky
Subject: Re:

bad for them , =ood for you. no need to have only one currency, its old =ashioned. . you are of course welcome to use apt in new york with yo=r new leisure time, or visit new Mexico again.

ants find the shortest route to food, by trying many=and discarding what doesn't work, no algorithm. , no input or ou=put , only a goal. . sounds closer to our probem<=>

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 8:15 AM, Noam Chomsky w=ote:

Bad news. We decided not to go.=C2 I was invited to talk at the Parliament, but what can one say? =That aside, they've got plenty of people giving them bad advice.=u>

From: Jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com1
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2015 7:48 PM
To: Noam Chomsky
Subject:

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

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