Chomsky, generous as always. Speaking to a hall of black plague suffering peasants somewhere in rural Europe. Never heard so much coughing and I spent 7 years of my life in Scandinavian universities

The audience members were deeply influenced by Descartes: "I cough, therefore I am."

There is always a cougher...

Noam is so cool man.  I mean...sure he's human and all but I just really admire his desire to learn.

the sickly-est audience I've ever heard

"what was exorcised was the machine, not the ghost"  lol this gets me everytime

Trying to watch this while eating chips is impossible I can't hear a thing!

Seeing Chomsky kind of choke on a word (cognosticive?@ 4.01) is refreshing, then giving a sheepish smile. Usually he talks for hours without slipping up.

Well reasoned.  He's not putting Descartes before the the horse.

Oh boy, I just love having Chomsky vids interrupted for unskippable ads for a superhero movie and business software. Boy I sure am gonna buy those products now.

The Chomsky lecture that happened when the coughing flash-mob showed up.

And blasting into #1 again on my Chomsky top 40 for the 33rd week in a row it's... Chomsky on René Descartes.

Such a national treasure. Will be missed when he’s gone. Thankful he exists to begin with.

Brilliant!  Chomsky is a master at communicating complex esoteric knowledge to those of us who are not educated in this area

Fascinating clarity of his analysis of Descartes's demo of how the 'creative' ways that language works links up with something beyond the mechanically-governed universe, the mind, which is governed by entirely different rules.
Interesting, too, how he recasts the well-known de-animation of the universe, his attack of the Aristotelian grasp of nature, as an 'exorcising' of the ghost from a mechanically-governed universe.

I think he’s saying that the hard problem of consciousness stands between us and the prospect of taking materialism seriously anytime soon. The mind-body dualism will continue to be our model for the foreseeable future.

So so v brilliant this man...

WE;COME TO THE MACHINE!!!!!!!!

I believe Foucault was in the audience coughing violently each time Chomsky spoke a noun.

Legend has it - Audience is still coughing