>>11235234So back in the 70's my team was doing neuroimaging of autistic savants. We were trying to find a genetic basis for chomsky's universal grammar. I came in one day and I saw this strange shape on my display that looked like a misshapen cluster of synapses that wouldn't go away. I thought my display was broken so i had one of the guys from the physics department who worked on particle accelerators come in to fix it.
i told him my positron emission topography machine has gone haywire.
' see look at this image here' i told him, 'synapses dont look like this'
he turned to me, face deathly pale and said 'sir thats no synapse thats a six dimensional calabi-yau manifold. and these are no positrons'
i said 'what in tarnation is a krabby-yo manifold and what is it doing in my patients neocortex? and what do you mean these aint no positrons it's a positron emission topography machine'
i move him out of the way and turn the machine over to show him the label
'see says right here. PAW-SEE-TRON. Made in china'
he took out his TI-84 and did some calculations.
'sir...these are ftl neutrinos... from the year two thou--'
just before he completed his sentence some black suit guys came in and took him and my autistic savants away and I never saw them again
a few years later some missionary went deep into the amazons and found this piraha tribe whose language had no recursion or embedding. i looked at the pictures he took in the news and thought 'hey those piraha guys kinda look like my autistic savants, but more tan hahaha'
anyways most of us thought that tribe was a nail in the coffin for chomsky so we quit our jobs and I started learning java instead (gotta put food on the table you know)
