I am currently reading The Master and His Emissary , which appears to be an excellent book. ("Appears" because I don't know the neuroscience literature well enough to say for sure, yet.) But then on page 186 I find: "Asking cognition, however, to give a perspective on the relationship between cognition and affect is like asking astronomer in the pre-Galilean geocentric world, whether, in his opinion, the sun moves round the earth of the earth around the sun. To ask a question alone would be enough to label one as mad." OK, this is garbage. First of all, it should be pre-Copernican, not pre-Galilean. But much worse is that people have seriously been considering heliocentrism for many centuries before Copernicus. Aristarchus had proposed a heliocentric model in the 4th-century BC. It had generally been considered wrong, but not "mad." (And wrong for scientific reasons: Why, for instance, did we not observe stellar parallax?) And when Copernicus propose...
You know when you are traveling forward in time and you run into your future self and you look at each other? I'd imagine both events would trigger similar effects.
ReplyDeleteThen a third person has to break the tie by calling a name out. I know - I have a 7 year old and a 5 year old.
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ReplyDeleteMine keep saying "jinx!" at the same time repeatedly until one runs out of breath.
I find myself traveling forward in time habitually, but I've never run into my future self except by becoming him.
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