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The answer to the question: What is the author´s purpose for including this statement, would be: To show the greatness, and yet the simplicity, of the innovations and discoveries that this researcher, Terry Sejnowski accomplished, regarding learning, on many fields, including language mastering. This neuroscientist, better known as Terrence Joseph Sejnowki, has been known around the world for his work on neural circuits, and other things regarding how the brain works, especially when it comes to learning, and mastering different fields of knowledge. What he showed through his multiple research is that learning is much simpler than it was used to believe, and it required the correct work of a neural circuit. He found that this neural circuit was the only thing necessary to ensure proper learning, and that is what the author in "Talking Robots" wanted to express through this excerpt.
