2. Read the following text and answer the questions in the written form.

Noam Chomsky interviewed in 1977 by David Cohen on the topic of psychology

QUESTION: Do your views about Man hint at some kind of sympathy with a man like [R. D.] Laing who sees many mystical elements in Man, that are maybe too random to be encompassed by a finite science?

CHOMSKY: I would look at it differently, I think. I would just take it for granted that a human being is a biological organism like any other. It's a biological organism with a very unique intellectual capacity that we are only barely beginning to understand. I think our intellectual capacities are very highly structured. They are our biological specialization. These biological structures enable us to construct extremely rich, very penetrating systems, scientific theories if you like. Some of them are common sense. Some of them are articulated, which allows us to understand things rather deeply, far beyond any evidence that's available to us. However, these same principles which give such enormous range to our system of understanding also limit its scope. These two facts are very closely linked together. Any sort of principles that enable you to construct a rich theory on the basis of data is likely to limit the class of possible theories that you can attain. Now it may very well be among the theories that we are able to attain by our biological endowment, that the theory of mind is included, or it may be among the theories that we are not able to attain, that the theory of mind is included. In that case, it will appear that human beings have mystical, unintelligible properties because we as biological organisms will not have within our range (which is obviously a finite range) the theory which would, in fact, explain it. There's nothing inconsistent about that. We are biological organisms. We are capable of constructing certain systems and understanding certain scientific theories. It's an open question whether those scientific theories happen to include the true theory of some domain that happens to interest us. It may or it may not. If it does not, that domain will appear to be mystical. It will only be a higher organism or a differently endowed organism that will understand it. But I think that's about all that can be said.

1. How did Chomsky define the place of Man in evolutionary processes?

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2. How advanced is Man in studying human beings?

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3. What is the correlation in scientific theories and average routine understanding of life?

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4. Why are human beings considered having “mystical, unintelligible properties”?

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5. What did Chomsky refer to as “an open question”?

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