Interesting that you mention Chomsky. Is my feeling correct that Skinner and people like him represented the modern feeling—and at that time too apparently—that

Interesting that you mention Chomsky. Is my feeling correct that Skinner and people like him represented the modern feeling—and at that time too apparently—that we only needed to find mechanisms of association and then would be able to mechanically simulate the interesting parts of the human mind? Btw from the Chomsky book you linked: > > The technological advances of the 1940s simply reinforced the general euphoria. Computers were on the horizon, and their imminent availability reinforced the belief that it would suffice to gain a theoretical understanding of only the simplest and most superficially obvious of phenomena – everything else would merely prove to be “more of the same,” an apparent complexity that would be disentangled by the electronic marvels