People would do well reading Chomsky's many writings on the subject, rather than reacting to these tiny snippets. Like maybe "Language and Problems of Knowledge

People would do well reading Chomsky's many writings on the subject, rather than reacting to these tiny snippets. Like maybe "Language and Problems of Knowledge: the Managua Lectures" or "Language and Thought". http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=turing+test+inauthor:chomsky&num=10 http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=turing+... A quick email conversation or off-the-cuff interview is too brief to convey the context. Most of the dismissive comments here don't seem to engage that context in a way that makes me confident that they're informed by it.