Richard Adelstein wrote:  
> On the earlier point that spontaneous order always  
> relies on a   
> background of central planning, I'd offer the  
> counterexample of the   
> natural languages, which are spontaneously ordered  
> phenomena which   
> require no conscious cultivation or supervision at  
> all.  
>   
  
If Chomsky turns out to be correct about innate  
representational structures for language, I have to  
wonder how one can describe natural languages as  
spontaneous.   
  
Michael Nuwer