Very true! I think it’s eye opening that almost every one of Chomsky’s lectures on such topics (I.e. “what kind of creatures are we?”) start with a discussion o

Very true! I think it’s eye opening that almost every one of Chomsky’s lectures on such topics (I.e. “what kind of creatures are we?”) start with a discussion of what Newton, Galileo, or Descartes has to say about it. The great thinkers of the past aren’t necessarily outdated, in some ways they might still have things to teach us from beyond the grave that we didn’t really appreciate when they were alive.